A challenge many users face when building diagrams is getting them to look neat and organized. Visio has included a number of features to help with the placement of shapes for many releases. Some of these are manual and only help when dragging a single shape. Others are automated but often a bit too rigid…
Year: 2009
The Office Fluent UI in the Visio 2010 Technical Preview
The Visio 2010 user interface has been completely revamped this release based on the Office Fluent or “Ribbon” UI. The Office Fluent UI represents a dramatic departure from the overloaded menu and toolbar design model of previous Visio releases. Visio’s extensive capabilities are now organized into logical, easy to find groups that help you accomplish…
The New Shapes Window in Visio 2010
The Shapes Window has been redesigned in Visio 2010 to streamline the identification and use of shapes when creating diagrams. We’ve made several enhancements to make it easier to move from the initial "creation" phase to the "editing" phase of working with shapes. In this post, you’ll learn all about the new features and how…
The Getting Started Experience in Visio 2010
One of the first things you’ll notice when you start Visio 2010 is the new getting started screen, which is where you’ll choose a template for the diagram you plan to create. While it’s similar to the “Getting Started with Microsoft Office Visio” screen that greets users of Visio 2007, it’s actually part of the…
More Resources for Visio 2010 and Office 2010
Microsoft Visio 2010 is part of the Office 2010 wave of products. While Visio is sold separately from the applications in the Office suite, we share quite a bit of functionality with these applications. In Visio 2010 you will see the adoption of the Office Fluent User Interface and many other shared capabilities in Office….
Visio 2010 Technical Preview Released
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…