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(Relatively) New blog with lots of great Visio content

Somehow I had thought that I had already pointed people to Saveen Reddy's blog , but looking back through the archives I realized that I hadn't. Saveen doesn't work on the Visio team, but is a power user and knows a ton about visualization. I'm a huge Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:51 PM by wmorein | 1 Comments

Solution Performance Tip 1 – GetFormulas and SetFormulas

One of the most frequent questions I get from partners and other readers of this blog is how to improve the performance of their solution. Usually the first step is to point them to these five performance tips , but I thought it would be interesting to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:12 PM by wmorein | 4 Comments
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Visio 2007: Good reference on developer changes

I spent a little time today answering questions about some of the new features in Visio 2007, and noticed that I had never linked to these articles: What's New for Developers in Visio 2007 (Part 1 of 2) What's New for Developers in Visio 2007 (Part 2 Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 2:01 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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Visio Developer Search

While working on a little project this past week I was spending a lot of time looking for information on various Visio developer topics. To speed things up, I put together a Live Search Macro that scopes down the search to to online SDK documentation Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:54 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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VSTO and Visio

As I've mentioned before, Visual Studio Tools for Office includes wizards for Visio in their latest release (VSTO 2005 SE) and this will be a big part of Visio development in the future. Having said that, there is still a little bit of work in creating Read More...
Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 2:39 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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Office and Visio Launch

As many of you know, yesterday was the business launch of Office, including Visio. The full consumer launch (i.e. boxes available in stores) will happen in January. In the meantime, you can download a trial version of the final product . We have released Read More...
Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:21 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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Meet a ShapeSheet Function: SETF

With this post I'll start a new series designed to give a little more detail behind some of the more interesting ShapeSheet functions. As the documentation for SETF says , this function is designed to let you set the value for a specific cell in the ShapeSheet Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:39 AM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Developer Book Recommendation

For those of you who are developing with Visio (particularly if you have some experience), I'd like to recommend Graham Wideman's book: Visio 2003 Developer's Survival Pack . The author is one of our MVPs and is as knowledeable about Visio as just about Read More...
Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 6:00 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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Presentation on Building Solutions using the Visio 2007 Data API

The Office team has put up video of all of the presentations from the Office Developer Conference held this past spring. At the conference, I presented a Visio 2007 session focusing on building solutions using the new Data APIs. The direct link to the Read More...
Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 6:07 PM by wmorein | 3 Comments

Visio 2007: More on Customizing Data Graphics: Icon Sets with Images

In the previous two posts on customizing Data Graphics, I covered general customization (using a text callout example) and customizing icon sets . If you are creating icon sets, often you'll want to use existing images rather than trying to figure out Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:21 AM by wmorein | 3 Comments
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Visio 2007: More on Customizing Data Graphic Items: Icon Sets

In my earlier post on Data Graphics customization , I covered how to edit a text Graphic Item. A few people have asked for more information on how to deal specifically with Icon Sets since that is a place where there are most often domain-specific icons Read More...
Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 12:24 PM by wmorein | 5 Comments
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Visio Conference 2006 presentations available online

If you didn't get a chance to make it to the Visio Conference we held in January, we've put up audio/visual recordings from all of the sessions at http://www.visioconferencecontent.com/ . There is a lot of great information there, whether you are interested Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 01, 2006 3:34 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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Visio 2007: Customizing Data Graphic Items

After spending a couple days chatting with people here at TechEd, I am amazed at how many people have already downloaded and have been playing around with Visio 2007 Beta 2. If you don’t have it yet, you can check it out here . In particular, a lot of Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:50 PM by wmorein | 16 Comments
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Visio in Visual Studio Tools for Office - Public Preview Availability

I mentioned earlier the release of VSTO for Visio Beta 1 users. Now that Beta 2 is available, I’m happy to announce that anyone can try this out. To download the CTP of VSTO “v3”, go here . Note that you need to install Visual Studio first, then Visio Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 11:26 AM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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Bug in Creating Visio COM Add-ins with Visual Studio 2005

In this post I describe how to create Visio COM Add-ins with VS2005. It turns out that the add-ins created using the shared wizard I create have an issue such that they do not install correctly on machines that don’t have Visual Studio installed (i.e. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 26, 2006 12:04 AM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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