Along with the rest of the 2007 Office system, Visio 2007 Beta 2 is now available for public download at the download preview site. All you need to be able to install the application is a Windows Live ID/Passport account, which you can set up when you go to that site. Once you’ve downloaded the…
Year: 2006
Visio in Visual Studio Tools for Office
A longstanding request from Visio developers has been support in Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). I’m happy to say that for those of you in the Office Beta 1 program, you can start playing around with this now. For details on setting it up, check out this blog post from Andrew Whitechapel on the…
TechEd Session
I’ll be presenting a session at TechEd in Boston on programming the new Visio 2007 data features. Here are the session details: Microsoft Office Visio 2007: Building Data Visualization Solutions Day/Time: Thursday, June 15 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM Room: 259 AB Speaker(s): Bill Morein Your application deals with huge amounts of data, and making sense…
ShapeSheet tutorial, part 1
For this post, I’ll walk through the process of building up a shape from scratch and editing it using the ShapeSheet. The shape itself won’t be too complex, but we’ll cover a few of the interesting features of the ShapeSheet. To get started, create a new blank drawing (File>New>New Drawing). If you are a US…
Introduction to the ShapeSheet
The ShapeSheet is probably the most overlooked part of Visio. The amount of power that you can get by using the ShapeSheet without any programming is pretty amazing. The basic idea is that behind every shape in Visio there is a spreadsheet that defines the shape in terms of its appearance and many other shape…
Visio Conference Kickoff
Customers and partners are starting to arrive in Seattle for the sold out Visio Conference, starting tomorrow. We’re very excited to roll out Visio “12” in detail publicly for the first time. We think that you’ll love what we have done with the product for this release. Although the keynotes and sessions start tomorrow (Thursday),…