This week Microsoft announced that Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Project 2010 and Microsoft Visio 2010 have reached the technical preview engineering milestone. A limited number of invited participants can now download Visio 2010 to try it for themselves. This milestone also kicks off our coverage of Visio 2010 on the Visio…
Visio 2010 Technical Beta program
We’re excited to announce that the Visio team is taking nominations to participate in the Visio 2010 Technical Beta program! We will be sending out a limited number of invitations to download and install Visio 2010 Technical Preview in July. The team is excited to get valuable feedback and early testing from our community that will…
Update: Visio 2007 Service Pack 2 and Visio Conference 2008
A few updates… XMI Export We recently reported the availability of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Visio 2007. We received a few questions about how to use the XMI export feature in UML diagrams. The behavior in SP2 is exactly the same as in previous versions. Integrating it into the UML solution and retiring the…
Service Pack 2 available for Visio 2007
Yesterday, we released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Visio 2007. You can download and install it from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=78e36742-8bda-471e-88e6-9b561bb06258 Among the issues we’ve addressed in SP2 are these: A crash caused by early versions of the Broadcom “Send To Bluetooth” add-in occurs every time Visio is shut down. The first crash on exit will still occur, but subsequent…
Developer Reference for Visio 2007 Viewer released
The Visio 2007 Viewer Developer Reference is up on MSDN and can be accessed at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297217.aspx. The reference includes the full API reference and some short samples on how to embedded the viewer in different environments. The Viewer provides an application programming interface (API) that enables solution developers to perform the following tasks: Load and…
Using Visio 2007 Professional’s data connectivity features with timelines
Visio 2007 provides data connectivity support for a number of data sources such as Excel, SQL and SharePoint Lists. One interesting scenario is to pull in schedule information from a SharePoint calendar (a special list type in SharePoint) to generate a Visio timeline. Visio MVP David Parker has posted an article that illustrates how to…
Visio Conference 2008 videos posted
For anyone who wasn’t able to attend the Visio Conference 2008 this February or has been itching to show everyone else the cool things coming in Visio “vNext”, the wait is over! Videos from all the conference sessions are posted on http://www.visiotoolbox.com. Click on the conference link in the bottom-right corner of the page -…
Extra drawings opening on Visio launch
This situation has come up frequently enough in the newsgroups that the solution should be widely circulated: When Visio crashes, it will often restart and recover the document you were working on. This is generally quite helpful, but sometimes Visio doesn’t know when to stop. Sometimes Visio will continue to recover that document and show it…
Shape Conversion in Process Engineering
A recent newsgroup post asks for an explanation of the cells that get added to a shape when it is converted using the Process Engineering add-on. The Shape Conversion command in Process Engineering allows you to make any shape work like the built-in Process Engineering shapes. We recognized that customers who made Piping…
CAD Integration Announcement for Visio "vNext"
This morning at Day 2 of Visio Conference 2008, we announced that the next version of Visio will add support for AutoCAD 2007 DWG and DXF file formats. As mentioned in previous blog posts, this was a major request from Visio customers and partners. General Manager Richard Wolf explained in his keynote address how Visio prioritizes feature investments…