Year: 2009

Visio 2007 provides the capability to add data to your diagrams from several supported data sources such as Access, Excel, SharePoint, and SQL, etc.  You can also use this capability within your Visio add-ins as the Visio object model provides many objects, methods, and properties for adding, removing, and manipulating DataRecordsets within your add-in. Here…

The System Center forum hosts a download that contains three new stencils dedicated to System Center Operations Manager.  These stencils contain approximately 64 shapes You can easily add these stencils to your My Shapes menu by unzipping the content of the download into your My Shapes folder under My Documents (XP) or Documents (Vista)… Each…

I recently received a request from a user who wanted the ability to: 1. rotate the text for the Bracket Interval shape to an angle such as 45deg. 2. display the interval name above the date instead of below. I took the built-in shape and customized it to support these two requirements, allowing you to…

(updated 6/11/09 – added support for a dialog to allow you to set the interval between slides) Recently I was asked if it was possible to set a timer to automatically switch to the next page when in full screen mode, producing a slide show style presentation mode. I decided to do this using VBA…

After I posted my source for managing CommandBarButton and CommandBarPopup objects I received a few requests to include management of CommandBarButtons that control the state of AnchorBar windows. As you know you can add your own windows within the Visio drawing window, similar to the Shape Data window.  These type of windows are typically controlled…

Recently I have noticed a few add-ins that lock customization on the MenuBar object after the add-in has made its changes, i.e. adding a custom menu.  There are valid reasons for using this functionality but you also have to consider the impact to other add-ins that may be installed. Example: menuBar.Protection = MsoBarProtection.msoBarNoCustomize If you…

Most add-ins that are developed for Visio make modifications to the Visio menu and toolbars.  The add-in developer is responsible for making the appropriate changes to the Visio UI in a manner that does not affect the operation of Visio or other add-ins that maybe installed.  They are also responsible for cleaning up their changes….

With the release of .NET Framework 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation was introduced.  WPF is the new UI development environment for forms based development. If you are not familiar with WPF you can take a look at this introduction article on MSDN.   Setup your Visio add-in to support WPF All you need to do to…

After installing the WBS Modeler add-in for Visio and creating a new diagram based on the WBS Modeler template the WBS Modeler menu should be available on the Visio menu as shown in Figure 1 below. Figure 1 Issue In some cases the WBS Modeler menu does not appear when opening or creating WBS Modeler…

I thought I would share some wrapper classes that I use in just about all of my Visio add-ins for managing the state of my custom menu and toolbar items.  These wrapper classes were a collaborative effort between me and the developers at Visimation, Inc. Before Visio began using CommandBars as the supported method for…