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Monday, November 09, 2009 6:07 PM

Building Visio 2010 – A Look Behind the Scenes

The Visio Product Team has been working for several years to design, code, test and deliver Visio 2010. It takes lots of coordination and collaboration to develop a complex software application. While there are many roles involved in the engineering process,
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 4:40 PM

Embedding a Web Drawing in a SharePoint Page

Previously we showed how Visio Services lets you view diagrams in the browser. By default Visio Web Drawings open in their own web page for a full screen viewing experience. Visio Services also allows Visio Web Drawings to be embedded in other SharePoint
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:58 PM

Publishing Diagrams to Visio Services

In our last post , we talked about Visio Services--a new feature of SharePoint 2010 that extends the reach of Visio diagrams considerably. Visio Services lets you: View diagrams in the browser even if you don’t have Visio installed Refresh data-driven
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Friday, October 30, 2009 4:54 PM

Introducing Visio Services

Last week at the SharePoint Conference, the Visio team unveiled Visio Services – a new feature of SharePoint 2010 that extends the reach of diagrams considerably. In a nutshell, Visio Services lets you: View diagrams in the browser without needing Visio
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Monday, October 26, 2009 11:08 PM

Visio 2010 Beta coming soon…

It’s been several months since the Technical Preview was released and we started talking about Visio 2010 on this blog.  The product team has been hard at work responding to your feedback, fixing bugs and polishing the application.  Next month
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:14 PM

Announcing SharePoint 2010 and Visio Services

Yesterday Microsoft released details about SharePoint 2010 at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas.  SharePoint 2010 is a major release, covering a tremendous array of collaboration capabilities.  You can read the overview on the SharePoint
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:02 PM

Data Graphics Legends in Visio 2010

Many of you are familiar with the work we did in Visio 2007 to make it easier to surface data that exists in your diagram in a visual form. Data graphics allow you to add refreshable data visualizations to the shapes in your diagram. See our previous
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:58 PM

Data Graphics in Visio 2010

In Visio 2007, we introduced the data graphics feature to make it possible to display data on shapes using text callouts, data bars, or icons, or by coloring the shapes based on the data. As the data changes, the data graphics update accordingly. With
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Friday, October 09, 2009 12:02 PM

Live Rendering Shapes in Visio 2010

For several releases Visio has enhanced the appearance of shapes in diagrams by adding isometric projections or themes with gradients and shadows.  All the while, their appearance in the Shapes Window has been unchanged.  The 32x32 pixel icons
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:47 PM

Annotating Diagrams with Callouts in Visio 2010

One of the guiding principles for the Visio 2010 user interface is that commonly used shapes should be easily accessible.  We showed how the Quick Shapes view in the Shapes Window aggregates the shapes from multiple stencils together.  There
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:02 AM

Automatic Page Sizing in Visio 2010

When you start a new diagram, you typically begin with a single drawing page that is the size of a standard piece of printer paper.  Many diagrams grow beyond the size of a single printed sheet.  Visio 2010 adds a dynamic page sizing capability
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:02 AM

Inserting and Deleting Shapes in Visio 2010

Diagram maintenance is a task that everyone performs, and many users spend much of their time in Visio maintaining existing diagrams.  We realize that a fair amount of the time you spend maintaining your diagrams is spent in the mechanics of the
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:31 PM

The Visio 2010 Connectivity API

Our previous post on AutoConnect in Visio 2010 discussed how Visio 2010 makes it simpler and faster for end users to create connected diagrams such as flowcharts. Many developers will be pleased to hear that Visio 2010 also brings greatly simplified utilities
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:22 PM

AutoConnect in Visio 2010

AutoConnect was a feature first introduced in Visio 2007. The original intent of the feature was to simplify the creation of connected diagrams such as business process flowcharts by accomplishing multiple tasks in a single action: 1. Dropping a new shape
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Friday, September 18, 2009 9:25 AM

Applying a Background or Border Design in Visio 2010

Visio 2010 introduces a new way to apply a background or border and title design to your diagrams. The new Backgrounds and Borders & Titles galleries on the Design tab in the ribbon let you choose from a variety of styles and apply them with one click.
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