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…
Year: 2007
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”…
Launching a Remote Desktop session from a hyperlink
If you are managing your network with a Visio diagram (either in Visio or on a web page), you might have wished that you could just click on a server shape and connect directly to that machine to administer it. I’ve seen people put these types of hyperlinks into their diagrams when their servers have…
Do You Share Diagrams On A Server?
Do you ever put Visio diagrams on a SharePoint site, Web site, or file server so you can easily share them with others? Are you making use of Visio 2007’s Data Link and Data Graphics features? If so, the Visio Product Planning team would like to talk to you! We are currently conducting research to…
DXF, DWG & Visio
Now that Visio 2007 is out the door (mostly — the consumer launch is coming up soon) we are looking at future versions. Do you ever open, save or use AutoCAD files (DXF/DWG) with Visio? If so, the Visio product team would like to talk to you. Send me a note (use the contact form…