I’ll be presenting a session on Visio at Interop Las Vegas on May 22nd. The presentation will focus on visualizing IT data using Visio 2007. If you’ll be at the conference, make sure to check it out. I’ll be around for a few days, so if you are interested in chatting there feel free to…
Developer Behavior Change in Visio 2007: Additional “GUARD” functions in Shapes
Some developers have noticed a change that we made in Visio 2007: more of the shapes we ship with Visio contain the GUARD ShapeSheet function. This was done to make some shapes work better with our new Themes feature and often just to take formatting more effectively in the first place. Here is an example…
More about launching a Remote Desktop session from a hyperlink
A few people have asked me if the remote desktop hyperlink creator is Visio-specific. The answer is no. It creates hyperlinks that can be used anywhere. If you publish your network diagrams using Visio’s Save as Web feature it will work there too. Here’s the original post explaining what it is.
VSTO and Visio
As I’ve mentioned before, Visual Studio Tools for Office includes wizards for Visio in their latest release (VSTO 2005 SE) and this will be a big part of Visio development in the future. Having said that, there is still a little bit of work in creating a VSTO Visio add-in. Chris Castillo has created the…
A Little Bit of History: The Original Visio Business Plan
One of our developers pointed me towards this great case study of a business drawing program called Mainline, which eventually was renamed to Visio. Other early names of the company and product include Axon, ShapeWare, and Graw (see http://visio.mvps.org/History.htm for more interesting bits of Visio history). As you might imagine, diagrams were a pretty key…
Data Mining Add-ins for Visio 2007 released
The SQL Server Data Mining team has built some Add-ins to allow you to view mining models inside Visio. They just released these along with their SP2, and you can download them now. You can read a little more about them here and here. There are three types of models available in the add-in: 1. …
(Relatively) New Visio Blog
Our Visio MVPs are in town right now, and that reminded me that I’ve been remiss in mentioning Chris Roth’s Visio Guy blog. Chris did a great presentation on XML at the Visio Conference last year, and has a wealth of other visio knowledge. Make sure to check it out, particularly if you are interested…
Visio 2007: Consumer Launch
I’m happy to say that you can now buy Visio 2007 online and at stores. This is a huge release for us so it is great to finally be able to have it out there broadly. If you are looking for more information on what you get in this version, you can find my posts…
Visio 2007: Bug in Drawing Control
Please be aware that there is a bug in the Visio 2007 Drawing Control such that if you have the SRC property set and add a new page (either through the UI or through code), Visio crashes. Obviously this is really bad and we are actively working to get a fix, but in the meantime…
BPMN in Visio (and Shape Search)
As many of you are aware, there is a standard process notation standard out there called Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). If you are looking to use this notation in Visio, you have several options. The most straightforward is to just use “Search for Shapes” (at the top of the shapes window) by typing “BPMN”…