If you’re an IT administrator managing multiple copies of Visio and Office 2010, this post explains some changes and improvements we’ve made to the deployment experience for Visio 2010. Visio 2010 deployment is a little different than Office 2010 deployment, and this article will illustrate all those differences. Volume Activation Methods There are two supported…
Year: 2010
The World Cup Summarized as a Visio Diagram
Congratulations to Spain for winning the 2010 World Cup! Now that the games are over and we’re all suffering through soccer withdrawal, here’s a recap of the world cup summarized as a Visio diagram. You can use this diagram as a reference to remember who eliminated who, and which group your team was in. You…
Online SDK Documentation for Visio and Visio Services
Visio 2010 SDK Developer Documentation The Visio team is pleased to announce that the online version of the Visio 2010 SDK documentation is now available here. This documentation, which also shipped with the Visio SDK download, is intended to help developers working with the Visio APIs, ShapeSheet and XML. It contains the following Visio developer…
Visio 2010 is Available Today!
If you’ve been reading the blog over the past few months, you’ve seen how excited our team is about Visio 2010. Today we are happy to announce that Visio 2010 (and the rest of Office 2010) is available in retail stores and online today. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Technical Preview program, downloaded…
Visio Services Capacity Planning White Paper
The Visio Team recently released the Visio Services 2010 performance and capacity planning white paper. This white paper addresses the impact of SharePoint farm topology on Visio Services. It also explores how various service settings can affect latency and throughput. The white paper examines both typical and high stress conditions, which should help you better…
More Details About Visio Services Custom Data Providers
As part of the SharePoint SDK, the Visio team has published more documentation about creating Custom Data Providers. As you may recall, Visio drawings can connect to a variety of data sources, including Microsoft Excel files, SharePoint lists, SQL databases, and any other ODBC-compatible data source. In you want to connect to a different data…
Visualizing Operations Manager Data in Visio Services
We enjoy seeing the innovative solutions that are implemented on the Visio platform. Now, with Visio 2010 and Visio Services, we’re starting to see some great new solutions that weren’t possible before. A good example is the Visio 2010 add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. This add-in, which was originally released for Visio…
Visio 2010 Now Available for Businesses
Earlier this morning, Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft’s Business Division formally kicked off the launch of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010. The virtual launch event showed off a bunch of demos, customer testimonials, and interviews with Microsoft product managers. You can still see the virtual launch events over at http://www.the2010event.com. Visio…
Visio 2010 SDK and Visio 2010 Viewer available for download
Along with the Visio 2010 Release to Manufacturing, we are also pleased to announce that the Visio 2010 SDK and Visio 2010 Viewer are now available for download. The Microsoft Visio 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains developer documentation, sample applications, and other tools to help developers create custom solutions for Visio 2010. Since the…
Visio 2010 – Changes from Beta to RTM
As mentioned in the last post, Visio 2010 has reached the Release to Manufacturing milestone. The product team has spent the last several months incorporating your feedback from the Beta and refining the product. A large community of customers, partners, and MVPs has contributed to this effort. More than 500,000 people have downloaded the Visio…