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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
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Friday, September 11, 2009 5:02 PM

SharePoint Conference 2009

The Visio team is anxiously preparing to introduce Visio Services to the world at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, which runs from October 19th to 22nd, 2009 in Las Vegas. Visio Services is a new SharePoint feature that allows you to share Visio
Posted by Visio Team | 0 Comments
Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:18 AM

Creating custom validation rules for Visio 2010

In our last post , we discussed Diagram Validation—a new Visio 2010 feature which allows users to check their diagrams for common errors and allows companies to ensure that employees are following certain diagramming standards. In this post, we’ll talk
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:22 PM

The Developer tab in Visio 2010

Visio has long had a setting called “developer mode” that developers and shape designers can enable in order to surface extra functionality. In previous versions of Visio, enabling developer mode made new items appear in couple of different menus (Chris
Posted by Visio Team | 4 Comments
Monday, May 11, 2009 3:02 PM

Update: Visio 2007 Service Pack 2 and Visio Conference 2008

A few updates… XMI Export We recently reported the availability of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Visio 2007. We received a few questions about how to use the XMI export feature in UML diagrams. The behavior in SP2 is exactly the same as in previous versions.
Posted by Visio Team | 2 Comments
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:00 PM

Developer Reference for Visio 2007 Viewer released

T he Visio 2007 Viewer Developer Reference is up on MSDN and can be accessed at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297217.aspx . The reference includes the full API reference and some short samples on how to embedded the viewer in different environments.
Posted by Visio Team | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:00 AM

Visio Conference 2008 videos posted

For anyone who wasn't able to attend the Visio Conference 2008 this February or has been itching to show everyone else the cool things coming in Visio "vNext", the wait is over! Videos from all the conference sessions are posted on http://www.visiotoolbox.com
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:00 AM

CAD Integration Announcement for Visio "vNext"

This morning at Day 2 of Visio Conference 2008, we announced that the next version of Visio will add support for AutoCAD 2007 DWG and DXF file formats. As mentioned in previous blog posts , this was a major request from Visio customers and partners. General
Posted by Visio Team | 7 Comments
Friday, September 14, 2007 12:00 AM

Publishing Visio 2007 Solutions

Saul Candib, our technical writer for Visio, has posted an excellent article on MSDN explaining how to publish Visio 2007 solutions. In this context "solutions" refers to the add-ons, templates, stencils and/or help files that you have created and want
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:00 AM

New resources for Visio

Our MVP community has been quite busy creating new resouces for Visio. We'd like to highlight a few recent releases here. In response to a newsgroup discussion on Visio's Network Rack shapes. Chris Roth (Visio MVP and former employee) has released a new
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
Friday, April 13, 2007 5:21 PM

Creating Visio Add-ins with VSTO 2005 SE

There have been several newsgroup postings about using VSTO to create Visio Add-ins. The deployment of these add-ins can be especially challenging. There is a new developer article by Chris Castillo detailing how to write VSTO add-ins for Visio. Chris
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Friday, December 01, 2006 3:00 PM

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Released

Yesterday Visio 2007 was made available to business customers along with the rest of the 2007 Office System. Retail availability for Visio 2007 will be January 30, 2007. What’s so great about Visio 2007? Our primary investment focuses on visualizing business
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:00 AM

Smarter Paste between Pages

The Visio Product Team uses Visio for a number of tasks. A common task is creating storyboards to show how a user might construct a diagram. If you’ve ever seen one of those “behind the scenes” documentaries for a movie, you’ve seen the storyboarding
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:00 PM

Master Benefits

One of the things we'd like to accomplish with this blog is to highlight some performance optimizations that shape designers and developers should consider adopting as best practices. Unfortunately designing highly efficient shapes and solutions is a
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Friday, September 08, 2006 12:00 PM

Printing Comments

Visio 2003 introduced a new Reviewer & Markup feature that allows users to add comments to diagrams. A typical question we are asked is “How do I print the comments?” This capability was not included in the markup feature, but our Product Support
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
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