Following up on an article I wrote earlier about handling Visio 2013 files in SharePoint 2010, I wanted to break down the capabilities that are available when mixing Visio client and SharePoint versions. Visio 2013 client + SharePoint 2010 Coauthoring – Yes For co-authoring to work, each user must be using Visio 2013 Professional and…
Year: 2013
SharePoint 2013 Updates ( as of April 2013 )
For those of you getting ready to update your SharePoint 2013 RTM farm to the March 2013 CU, here is a list of updates and their version numbers… Build Number Build Name SKU KB Article 15.0.4420.1017 RTM SharePoint Foundation 2013 15.0.4420.1017 RTM SharePoint Server 2013 15.0.4420.1017 RTM Project Server 2013 15.0.4420.1017 RTM…
Visio 2013 Developer Training Released
I am pleased to announce a comprehensive series of Visio Services training modules are now available online on MSDN. These modules are all based on Visio Professional 2013 and SharePoint 2013 and they all include downloads for the files that were used for all of the demos seen in the videos. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/fp161532
URL columns create automatic Hyperlinks in shapes
If you add a column to your SharePoint list and set the type to Hyperlink or Picture… you can create list items that contain hyperlinks that can be navigated by simply clicking on the column in the list view. The nice thing about this column type is that if you data link a Visio shape…
New shapes for Office 2013
Today we released a set of shapes for Visio that will help you diagram your deployments for Office 2013, Office 365, SQL, Azure, SharePoint 2013, Exchange 2013, etc. Click here to find out more about these shapes http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35772
Working with Visio 2013 files in SharePoint 2010
If you are in a situation where you have updated your version of Visio to Visio 2013, but IT has not yet updated your SharePoint farm to SharePoint 2013, you will be in a situation where SharePoint does not understand Visio 2013 files saved in a document library. You will see the generic icon and…
Supporting VB based COM add-ins in Office 2013
If you are building or maintaining COM add-ins that are based on Visual Basic 6 then this change to Office 2013 will most likely affect your add-in deployment The Add-In Designer Object Library (msaddndr.dll) is no longer shipped with Office 2013. Read this article for details http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsod/archive/2012/11/21/vb6-based-add-ins-may-fail-to-work-on-office-2013.aspx
Upgrading VSTO project to Visual Studio 2010
In some cases I ( and my customers ) have run into build errors after upgrading VSTO based solutions ( for Visio or other Office applications ) from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010. For example: The build errors noted above seem to indicate that our ThisAddin class is no longer part of the…
Creating Custom Validation Rules in Visio 2013
Visio Professional 2013 contains a powerful diagram validation feature which allows users to check their diagrams for common errors and allows companies to ensure that employees are creating consistent diagrams that meet criteria set by notation standards or standards imposed by the enterprise. This validation engine uses a defined set of rules in each diagram…