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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

Top 5 Visualizations of 2008

For those more generally interested in Data Visualization, this is an interesting post: http://flowingdata.com/2008/12/19/5-best-data-visualization-projects-of-the-year/ Read More...
Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 9:28 AM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Visio Conference presentation on upcoming version of Visio

In February this year, we held a Visio Conference at which we started to reveal some of the features in the upcoming version of Visio. There are a lot of presentations up at the main conference site, but I did two presentations that were specific to the Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:41 PM by wmorein | 4 Comments

Visio Conference 2008 - Agenda now posted

We've posted the agenda for the upcoming Visio Conference . This conference will be expanded significantly from the last one, which was more focused on partners. This version will include a lot more end user content. One major note: we will be disclosing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:42 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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Visio SharePoint Stencils

SharePoint has been getting a lot of attention recently, and I've seen a lot of requests for stencils to help manage its design and deployment. A former colleague pointed me to this post , which includes a stencil that allows you document site structure. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:06 AM by wmorein | 2 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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Announcing (a bit belatedly) the Visio Conference 2008

This has already been mentioned on some of the other Visio-related blogs, but I wanted to make sure that people are aware of the Visio Conference 2008 , taking place here in Redmond in February of next year. The last conference (held in February 2006) Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:20 PM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Ribbon Baseball Widget for Word 2007 (built using VSTO)

It is baseball playoff time here in the US, so I wrote a Visual Studio Tools for Office 2008 beta add-in that lets you track games right inside the home tab of the Word 2007 ribbon. The add-in shows the score, inning, and base situation for games in progress, Read More...
Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 9:54 AM 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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More breakdowns of visualization techniques

Coding Horror has a good post summarizing a number of breakdowns similar to the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods that I covered in an earlier post . Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:48 AM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Exchange Server 2007 Shapes

A download is available on Microsoft.com containing a stencil and template for Exchange Server 2007 . If you do Exchange deployment or management this is worth grabbing. It works with Visio 2003 or 2007. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:00 PM 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

Data Mining Add-in update

I posted a while back about the new Data Mining Add-ins for Visio and Excel that were created by the SQL Server team. That is one of the more popular posts on this blog, so I know a lot of people have been downloading them. If you have, please note that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:28 AM by wmorein | 0 Comments

Security updates for Visio 2002 and Visio 2003

If you haven't already, make sure that you update any copies of Visio 2002 or 2003 with the security updates that we released last month. If you use Microsoft Update or Office Update (highly recommended) then you will already be updated, but if not you Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:54 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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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
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