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Chris Hopkins' Visilog

Visio Shape and Solution Development

February 2009 - Posts

Reset the Menu and Toolbars
Most add-ins that are developed for Visio make modifications to the Visio menu and toolbars.  The add-in developer is responsible for making the appropriate changes to the Visio UI in a manner that does not affect the operation of Visio or other Read More...
Using WPF Windows in Visio add-ins
With the release of .NET Framework 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation was introduced.  WPF is the new UI development environment for forms based development. If you are not familiar with WPF you can take a look at this introduction article on MSDN. Read More...
The WBS menu is not available after installing WBS Modeler add-in for Visio
After installing the WBS Modeler add-in for Visio and creating a new diagram based on the WBS Modeler template the WBS Modeler menu should be available on the Visio menu as shown in Figure 1 below. Figure 1 Issue In some cases the WBS Modeler menu does Read More...
State management for CommandBars
I thought I would share some wrapper classes that I use in just about all of my Visio add-ins for managing the state of my custom menu and toolbar items.  These wrapper classes were a collaborative effort between me and the developers at Visimation, Read More...
Source for Visio Toolbox add-ins released
I am happy to announce that we just released the source for the following Visio add-ins via CodePlex : Visio add-in for Disk Space Monitoring Visio add-In for Rack Server Virtualization Visio add-in for System Center   If you are not familiar with Read More...
Create your own Icon-Sets for Data Graphics
You may already know that Visio 2007 has a new feature called Data Graphics which can be applied to shapes to reflect the value of a property or formula within that shape.  For example, you might have a shape that has a Health property which can Read More...
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