Year: 2012

Here is a new version of my Visio Services Mashup Starter project template.  This will install to both Visual Studio 2010 and 2012.  The HTML is setup for HTML5 since SharePoint 2013 supports HTML5 natively. Download this project template today and get started building mashups with Visio Services in SharePoint 2013. VSIX_VGSStarter2013.zip

To keep up on the new version of Visio make sure to follow the product team via their new blog, http://blogs.office.com/b/visio/

Today the preview for the next version of Office was announced and released, http://office.com/preview. This announcement includes the preview for the next version of Visio.  For information on all the new exciting capabilities, including the opportunity to download and try the preview for yourself visit this site…http://visio.microsoft.com/en-us/Preview/default.aspx

Here is the link to the MSDN article which is a complete reference for all the shapes in the stencils that are part of the SharePoint Workflow template in Visio 2010 Premium. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio-help/sharepoint-workflow-template-shapes-guide-HA101903894.aspx

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