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Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:03 PM

Visio Export To Xaml: Now with an Installer

I added an installer program for VisioExportToXaml so that you can just try the export without being forced to compiling the source. I also made some minor UI changes.   How to Install Remove any previous versions of VisioExportToXaml Make sure you've
Posted by saveenr | 6 Comments
Friday, February 15, 2008 9:41 PM

Visio Trick: One-Color and Two-Color Glows

In which shapes will receive a spotlight Let's suppose you have the network diagram below. And what you'd like to to provide a little extra attention on server A. For example to emphasize it's importance or status. Perhaps we wish to indicate it's in
Posted by saveenr | 3 Comments

Attachment(s): two-color-glow-samples.vsd
Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:00 PM

Visio 2007 Trick: 3-Point Gradient Fills with Transparency

A Question How many shapes are required to draw the image below in Visio? The Answer 5 shapes. No groups, no wierd geometries. Just 5 shapes. What I want I want rich, smooth, multi-color gradient fills with independent transparencies for each color. I
Posted by saveenr | 4 Comments

Attachment(s): Visio-3-Point-Gradient-Example.vsd
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:01 PM

Visio 2007 Trick: Transparent Gradients

In which a Visio shape will be harmed ...   The Microsoft Visio Conference 2008 concluded this afternoon. The Visio team presented some exciting things for the next version. One thing I observed is that people have yet to exploit the full power of
Posted by saveenr | 4 Comments
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:28 AM

Updated Add-In for Visio 2007 to Export to XAML

[Update 2008-02-06 2:32pm EST] Published a new version on codeplex with some new features and a newer version of Theirry's XamlTune. Also scroll down for an example with a lot of text. What to notice in this update - Fills rendering improved (due to a
Posted by saveenr | 13 Comments
Monday, February 04, 2008 10:29 PM

A First Attempt at Exporting XAML from Visio 2007

[Update on 2008-08-05] Thierry Bouquain took this sample to the next level with much better results: http://www.ucaya.com/blog/2008/02/05/ASecondAttemptAtExportingXAMLFromVisio2007.aspx     I found that Andrej Benedik wrote a library from that
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Attachment(s): VisioExportToXaml-(2008-02-04).zip
 
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