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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:00 AM

Running with Characters, part 2

In the previous post we looked at the Characters object in Visio and used it to find the runs of formatted text in a shape. In this post we’ll complete the scenario by reading the formatting information from the Shapesheet to match it up with the text
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Friday, August 18, 2006 12:00 AM

Running with Characters

When working with shape text through automation, the Text property of a Shape is generally sufficient to get and set the text. However, this simple property ignores the fact that Visio text may have rich formatting applied or that the text is composed
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 12:00 AM

Adding Your Own Shapes to Visio

Visio users and developers often wonder how to distribute their newly created Visio shapes to their colleagues, friends and family (all depends on your friends and family I guess J ). Visio offers two mechanisms to publish content, each suited to different
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:00 AM

Name and NameU

When programming in Visio it is important to realize that many Visio objects have more than one name. Objects such as Pages, Masters, Cells and others have a local name and a universal name . Why two names? To address the problems that arise when combining
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Friday, June 30, 2006 12:00 AM

Getting to Know Your Neighbors - Quickly

Visio's SpatialNeighbors property is useful for finding shapes that are nearby other shapes or that overlap other shapes. It can be used to programmatically answer the question "What did I drop my shape on top of?". Unfortunately, the SpatialNeighbors
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:00 AM

Intelligent Diagrams

This is the sixth topic in a series discussing the essential features that make up the Visio application. Essential Feature: Extensibility Part of the original vision for Visio was that you could use it to make almost any kind of drawing. Rather than
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