There is a lot of buzz about HTML 5 and the support for HTML 5 provided by Internet Explorer, but what about adding HTML 5 content to pages on your SharePoint site?  Sure we can do it, but you will need IE9 or another compatible HTML 5 browser. Why would you want to do this? …

While enhancements to Visio 2010 make it a compelling business intelligence (BI) solution, I have seen it continue to be perceived primarily as a simple diagramming application. To display the power of Visio 2010 as BI solution, this blog highlights a series of 5 FREE online labs that will help you save money, by teaching…

I got this question again today and decided to throw together a quick sample demonstrating how you can toggle the visibility of connectors using a little bit of code and the Visio Object Model. This is no where near a perfect, hardened solution as I literally put this together in about 5 minutes ( it…

Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 I have done all my SharePoint development on a machine that had both applications installed locally.  This certainly makes it easy as the development tools are loaded locally with the SharePoint environment, allowing easy deployment and debugging. Visual Studio includes a collection of project templates…

As you know I use Visio for everything and thus I have put together a set of shapes to help me visualize the keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8 Consumer Preview that I like to keep handy. I can use this for slides in my presentations but mostly I just edit the desktop background image that…

Yesterday the Operations Manager team released an update to the wildly popular Visio add-in that allows you to visualize your monitoring data from Operation Manager in your Visio diagrams using the new Visio Services functionality available in SharePoint 2010. Click here to read the details about this update and to download this new version http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/04/02/visio-and-sharepoint-extensions-for-system-center-2012-released.aspx

Recently a bug was discovered in the SCOM add-in ( download here ) which prevents the add-in from applying the cool custom data graphic icon set on any shapes that are linked to SCOM data. Luckily there are a few workarounds: For existing diagrams: Download the attached Visio drawing. Open the attached Visio diagram. Copy…

SharePoint Designer has the capability to generate Visio diagrams for the workflow history page that display status of the executing workflow, unfortunately Visual Studio does not do this for workflows that are created and deployed to your farm. Ah, not generated for you but you can certainly create your own manually, and it is very…

When you choose to publish a SharePoint Workflow from SharePoint Designer you have the option to generate a visualization of the workflow.  This setting is found on the Workflow Settings page in SharePoint Designer when editing a workflow. If you check this option, SharePoint Designer creates a Visio diagram that is used to display the…

In a previous post I showed you how to edit the web.config file to disable the data refresh prompt so that diagrams will always refresh when rendered, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chhopkin/archive/2010/09/28/force-data-refresh-for-published-diagrams.aspx.  This method affects all diagrams that are viewed in the browser or rendered in the Visio Web Access web part. If you do not have access to…