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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

Visio Active Directory Topology Diagrammer

One of the most common requests I get from IT users of Visio is for a way to draw out an Active Directory topology map. Visio has Active Directory shapes, but until now it didn't have the ability to actually go out and create a diagram from AD. We've Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:24 AM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Upcoming webcast

I'll be presenting a webcast on the Data Visualization features in Visio on Tuesday, August 7th. Here is a link to the details and registration information . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:18 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments

New book -- Visualizing Information with Visio 2007

Somehow I missed the fact that Visualizing Information with Microsoft Office Visio 2007 , a new book by David Parker, has been published. I knew that the book was coming out, but somehow the actual release slipped by me. I've had a number of people ask Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:58 AM by wmorein | 1 Comments

Session at the Microsoft BI Conference

If you plan to be at the Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle this week, make sure to stop by my Chalk Talk on Friday at 9:45 AM in CT Theater 3. This will be a smaller, informal session with particular emphasis on connecting Visio to SQL Server Analysis Read More...
Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 8:10 PM by wmorein | 1 Comments

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 Session at Interop Las Vegas

I'll be presenting a session on Visio at Interop Las Vegas on May 22nd. The presentation will focus on visualizing IT data using Visio 2007. If you'll be at the conference, make sure to check it out. I'll be around for a few days, so if you are interested Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:44 PM by wmorein | 1 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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Visio 2007: Consumer Launch

I'm happy to say that you can now buy Visio 2007 online and at stores. This is a huge release for us so it is great to finally be able to have it out there broadly. If you are looking for more information on what you get in this version, you can find Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:36 AM 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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Visio 2007: AutoConnect in action

With this post I'm trying out something new: I'll be posting some videos to give you a little bit of a better flavor of some of the features in Visio. One of the Visio 2007 features that is most compelling visually is AutoConnect . Here is the basic description Read More...
Posted Friday, August 04, 2006 4:30 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: PivotDiagram Tips and Tricks, part 3

The default PivotDiagram layout is a hierarchy with spacing of 9.5 mm (or 0.375 in) between shapes. This works pretty seamlessly for a lot of data out there, but one of the powerful aspects of the PivotDiagram feature is your control over how your shapes Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 8:24 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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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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