Today Microsoft announced that Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 have released to manufacturing! As noted last month, Visio 2010 and the rest of the other Office 2010 products will be available to businesses worldwide on May 12th and to consumers online and on retail shelves this June. Many thanks…
Year: 2010
Visio 2010 Editions
As we get ready for next month’s launch of Visio® 2010, we’re ready to announce that Visio 2010 will be available in three different editions. This post explains the differences between the three editions (and also gives you a sneak peak of what our boxes will look like!) Visio Standard 2010 Simplify complexity with a…
Improved CAD Support in Visio 2010
Some of the earliest adopters of Visio were engineers and others who created technical drawings, and they loved the combination of power and simplicity that Visio provides. One of the most ubiquitous applications used by engineers is Autodesk’s AutoCAD, and Visio supports AutoCAD files by providing basic CAD integration features for import, conversion, and export….
Visio 2010 Release Dates
Last week on the Office Engineering Blog, Microsoft confirmed the release dates for Visio 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Project 2010. We’re happy to announce that Visio 2010 and the rest of the Office suite will release to manufacturing (RTM) next month. For businesses, Visio 2010 and the rest of the Office 2010 products…
Visio Services: Details for Administrators
In previous posts we’ve introduced Visio Services and shown you how you can publish your Visio diagrams to SharePoint. We’ve also given you a quick introduction on how to install and configure Visio Services. In this post, we’ll cover more details for IT Administrators about running Visio Services in SharePoint 2010. This post contains lots…
New Visio 2010 API for Configuring Raster Export
When we talk to developers to get their feedback on the Visio development platform, a common request we hear is the ability, through the API, to control the settings used when exporting a diagram as a raster image in the PNG, JPG, BMP, or TIFF format. Typically, they want to automate the export of the…
User Interface Extensibility in Visio 2010
When Office 2007 was introduced, a new UI paradigm was adopted, and so was a new UI extensibility model, the RibbonX (Ribbon extensibility) model. RibbonX is a XML markup that allows developers to customize the Office UI. It enables 3rd party developers and solution providers to build custom tabs and groups on top of the…
The Visio Services JavaScript Mashup API
Last week, we took a look at how to create interactive mashups with Visio diagrams without writing any code. If you need more flexibility in creating rich diagram mashups than offered out of the box by web part connections, you can use the Visio Services JavaScript Mashup API. In this post we’ll review the breadth…
No Code Mashups with Visio Services and Web Part Connections
Visio Services allows you to view Visio diagrams in SharePoint, and the Visio Web Access web part allows you to embed those diagrams on a web part page. This post examines how you can turn those diagrams into interactive mashups without having to write any code. SharePoint allows you to display multiple types of information…
Container, List and Callout API in Visio 2010
This post examines the programmability features for Containers, Lists and Callouts in Visio 2010. It supplements an earlier post that describes how these special shapes are constructed and how they can be customized. Collectively these shapes are known as Structured Diagram elements, and the part of the Visio API that manages these elements is known…