Yesterday Microsoft released details about SharePoint 2010 at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. SharePoint 2010 is a major release, covering a tremendous array of collaboration capabilities. You can read the overview on the SharePoint team blog. A notable feature in SharePoint 2010 is Visio Services. Here is the summary of Visio Services from our…
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Data Graphics Legends in Visio 2010
Many of you are familiar with the work we did in Visio 2007 to make it easier to surface data that exists in your diagram in a visual form. Data graphics allow you to add refreshable data visualizations to the shapes in your diagram. See our previous posts Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Released and Customizing…
Data Graphics in Visio 2010
In Visio 2007, we introduced the data graphics feature to make it possible to display data on shapes using text callouts, data bars, or icons, or by coloring the shapes based on the data. As the data changes, the data graphics update accordingly. With data graphics, Visio diagrams can be used to visualize dynamic data…
Live Rendering Shapes in Visio 2010
For several releases Visio has enhanced the appearance of shapes in diagrams by adding isometric projections or themes with gradients and shadows. All the while, their appearance in the Shapes Window has been unchanged. The 32×32 pixel icons have been limited to 16 colors (reminiscent of the EGA color palette from 1984). Thus the Shapes…
Annotating Diagrams with Callouts in Visio 2010
One of the guiding principles for the Visio 2010 user interface is that commonly used shapes should be easily accessible. We showed how the Quick Shapes view in the Shapes Window aggregates the shapes from multiple stencils together. There are also common shapes that are useful in many different kinds of diagrams. These are exposed…
Automatic Page Sizing in Visio 2010
When you start a new diagram, you typically begin with a single drawing page that is the size of a standard piece of printer paper. Many diagrams grow beyond the size of a single printed sheet. Visio 2010 adds a dynamic page sizing capability that responds as you draw, so you no longer have to…
Inserting and Deleting Shapes in Visio 2010
Diagram maintenance is a task that everyone performs, and many users spend much of their time in Visio maintaining existing diagrams. We realize that a fair amount of the time you spend maintaining your diagrams is spent in the mechanics of the task, rather than achieving the goals of updating the concept the diagram represents. …
The Visio 2010 Connectivity API
Our previous post on AutoConnect in Visio 2010 discussed how Visio 2010 makes it simpler and faster for end users to create connected diagrams such as flowcharts. Many developers will be pleased to hear that Visio 2010 also brings greatly simplified utilities for working with connected diagrams programmatically. The Visio 2010 API contains new methods…
AutoConnect in Visio 2010
AutoConnect was a feature first introduced in Visio 2007. The original intent of the feature was to simplify the creation of connected diagrams such as business process flowcharts by accomplishing multiple tasks in a single action: 1. Dropping a new shape on the page. 2. Connecting the new shape to the original shape. 3. Aligning…
Applying a Background or Border Design in Visio 2010
Visio 2010 introduces a new way to apply a background or border and title design to your diagrams. The new Backgrounds and Borders & Titles galleries on the Design tab in the ribbon let you choose from a variety of styles and apply them with one click. Backgrounds For several versions, Visio has provided a…