Geetesh Bajaj, who owns http://www.indezine.com, has a nice, quick summary of how to use Visio diagrams in Word documents in this article: http://www.indezine.com/products/visio/visioword.html. Thanks to blog reader Alexey for the heads-up! Thanks,Mai-lan
Year: 2004
Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 2)
Sorry that I haven’t been posting frequently since Thanksgiving — it gets super busy around the holidays, and unfortunately, my blogging time has suffered. I can’t promise that it will get better through December, especially since I’m planning a work-free holiday around Christmas but I will resume full blogging frequency in the new year. Tonight…
Dev Luv: Identify Visio Shapes By ID, Not Name
The name of a Visio shape is not unique on a page. The name is only unique in its container. Visio developers often try to identify shapes or types of shapes using the Shape.Name property. This can cause problems for two reasons: users can modify the shape’s Name property using the Format | Special dialog…
The Difference Between Visio’s Two Resource Toolkits
Visio 2003 has two resource toolkits which have similar names. The Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Resource Kit Tools targets the IT professional who is deploying Visio 2003 in a corporate environment. This toolkit is free for download, and contains tools and documentation to simplify deployment across multiple clients. For example, the toolkit contains a setup…
Visio for Enterprise Architects Versioning (and other responses to blog feedback)
Readers of my last blog on conceptual architecture shapes asked why they couldn’t find the new networking shapes with the latest version of Visio for Enterprise Architects (10.0.5110). Releases of Visio for Enterprise Architecture (VEA) and Microsoft Office Visio are not synchronized. VEA ships with Visual Studio and therefore ships on the Visual Studio release…
Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)
I’ve gotten multiple requests from blog readers to show how to get the same visual quality as seen in architectural diagrams posted on MSDN articles. Typically the Microsoft authors of MSDN articles use Visio to create the diagram. The diagram is then touched up for color or effects by a designer before posting on MSDN….
Dev Luv: Four Best Practices When Event Handling in Visio
1. Avoid Holding onto Multiple Visio Objects: If you need to keep track of Visio, pages, documents or shapes, use IDs instead of objects. A given shape can always be associated with a tuple <document ID, page ID, shape GUID>. 2. Use AddAdvise/IVisEventSink Event Handling: AddAdvise/IVisEventSink is more efficient than using IConnectionPoint since the solution…
Network Shapes and Auto-discovery Bundle for Visio 2003
We’ve put together a kit with two Visio partners, Fluke Networks and Altima Technologies, that provides an auto-discovery tool and lots of manufacturer-specific network shapes. Fluke Network’s LAN MapShot is an auto-discovery tool that crawls your network and puts together 13 different kinds of network diagrams in Visio 2003. Here’s an example of a Visio…
Christmas and Batman (in Visio)
Alexey Nichkov, a creative and expert Visio user, put together this varient on the person shape as a post on my last blog. I love it! Especially the Batman and Robin. The JPG takes a while to download so be patient — it’s up there. Alexey has other cool stuff at: http://www.prodigitall.narod.ru/ — the site is in Russian but you…
Visio “Person” Shape
If you type “person” or “user” in the Find Shape or Search for Shapes window in Visio, you get the following results. I’m not fond of the majority of these options. I think the best shape to use to represent a single user, customer, citizen, or person in general is this one: It’s…