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Visio and Data Visualization.
(Relatively) New blog with lots of great Visio content
Somehow I had thought that I had already pointed people to Saveen Reddy's blog, but looking back...
Date: 01/24/2009
Top 5 Visualizations of 2008
For those more generally interested in Data Visualization, this is an interesting post:...
Date: 12/29/2008
Visio Conference presentation on upcoming version of Visio
In February this year, we held a Visio Conference at which we started to reveal some of the features...
Date: 12/28/2008
Visio Conference 2008 - Agenda now posted
We've posted the agenda for the upcoming Visio Conference. This conference will be expanded...
Date: 11/27/2007
Visio SharePoint Stencils
SharePoint has been getting a lot of attention recently, and I've seen a lot of requests for...
Date: 11/14/2007
Solution Performance Tip 1 – GetFormulas and SetFormulas
One of the most frequent questions I get from partners and other readers of this blog is how to...
Date: 11/13/2007
Announcing (a bit belatedly) the Visio Conference 2008
This has already been mentioned on some of the other Visio-related blogs, but I wanted to make sure...
Date: 11/08/2007
Ribbon Baseball Widget for Word 2007 (built using VSTO)
It is baseball playoff time here in the US, so I wrote a Visual Studio Tools for Office 2008 beta...
Date: 10/08/2007
Visio Active Directory Topology Diagrammer
One of the most common requests I get from IT users of Visio is for a way to draw out an Active...
Date: 10/03/2007
More breakdowns of visualization techniques
Coding Horror has a good post summarizing a number of breakdowns similar to the Periodic Table of...
Date: 08/09/2007
Exchange Server 2007 Shapes
A download is available on Microsoft.com containing a stencil and template for Exchange Server 2007....
Date: 08/08/2007
Upcoming webcast
I'll be presenting a webcast on the Data Visualization features in Visio on Tuesday, August 7th....
Date: 07/25/2007
Data Mining Add-in update
I posted a while back about the new Data Mining Add-ins for Visio and Excel that were created by the...
Date: 07/24/2007
Security updates for Visio 2002 and Visio 2003
If you haven't already, make sure that you update any copies of Visio 2002 or 2003 with the security...
Date: 07/11/2007
New book -- Visualizing Information with Visio 2007
Somehow I missed the fact that Visualizing Information with Microsoft Office Visio 2007, a new book...
Date: 07/10/2007
Interesting Visualization examples - mostly treemaps
I missed this last year when it came out, but this blog post (an outgrowth of this WSJ article)...
Date: 05/15/2007
Interesting blog covering visualization of BI data
Sam Batterman, a BI Evangelist here at Microsoft, writes a great blog ("Samb Business Intelligence...
Date: 05/10/2007
Session at the Microsoft BI Conference
If you plan to be at the Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle this week, make sure to stop by my Chalk...
Date: 05/07/2007
Visio 2007: Good reference on developer changes
I spent a little time today answering questions about some of the new features in Visio 2007, and...
Date: 05/06/2007
Visio Developer Search
While working on a little project this past week I was spending a lot of time looking for...
Date: 05/02/2007
Visio Session at Interop Las Vegas
I'll be presenting a session on Visio at Interop Las Vegas on May 22nd. The presentation will focus...
Date: 04/19/2007
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...
Date: 04/17/2007
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...
Date: 04/10/2007
VSTO and Visio
As I've mentioned before, Visual Studio Tools for Office includes wizards for Visio in their latest...
Date: 04/09/2007
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...
Date: 03/04/2007
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...
Date: 02/24/2007
(Relatively) New Visio Blog
Our Visio MVPs are in town right now, and that reminded me that I've been remiss in mentioning Chris...
Date: 02/01/2007
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...
Date: 01/30/2007
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...
Date: 01/26/2007
BPMN in Visio (and Shape Search)
As many of you are aware, there is a standard process notation standard out there called Business...
Date: 01/23/2007
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...
Date: 01/22/2007
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...
Date: 01/19/2007
DXF, DWG & Visio
Now that Visio 2007 is out the door (mostly -- the consumer launch is coming up soon) we are looking...
Date: 01/15/2007
Office and Visio Launch
As many of you know, yesterday was the business launch of Office, including Visio. The full consumer...
Date: 12/01/2006
IE 7 Hyperlink issue in Visio 2003 Save As Web
If you use Save As Web, make sure to check out this post.
Date: 11/04/2006
Office Developer Poster
Along with developers building applications exclusively for Visio, there are a lot of people who do...
Date: 11/01/2006
Visio 2007: New Article on Customizing Data Graphics
We're starting to roll out some more developer and power user documentation on the new features in...
Date: 09/12/2006
Meet a ShapeSheet Function: SETF
With this post I'll start a new series designed to give a little more detail behind some of the more...
Date: 08/09/2006
Developer Book Recommendation
For those of you who are developing with Visio (particularly if you have some experience), I'd like...
Date: 08/07/2006
Visio 2007: AutoConnect in action
With this post I'm trying out something new: I'll be posting some videos to give you a little bit of...
Date: 08/04/2006
Presentation on Building Solutions using the Visio 2007 Data API
The Office team has put up video of all of the presentations from the Office Developer Conference...
Date: 07/31/2006
Visio 2007: PivotDiagram Tips and Tricks, part 3
The default PivotDiagram layout is a hierarchy with spacing of 9.5 mm (or 0.375 in) between shapes....
Date: 07/29/2006
Announcing the Visio Customer Council
We're always looking for ways to better understand the needs and concerns of Visio customers. To...
Date: 07/19/2006
Visio 2007: More on Customizing Data Graphics: Icon Sets with Images
In the previous two posts on customizing Data Graphics, I covered general customization (using a...
Date: 07/18/2006
Visio 2007: More on Customizing Data Graphic Items: Icon Sets
In my earlier post on Data Graphics customization, I covered how to edit a text Graphic Item. A few...
Date: 07/14/2006
New Office and Visio icons
It looks like the Office Design Group has gone public with the new icons for Office 2007. Visio is...
Date: 07/12/2006
Visio at the Worldwide Partner Conference
If you are at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2006 in Boston, make sure to head to the...
Date: 07/11/2006
10 Tips for Creating Great Process Flowcharts
Here are some tips for building great flowcharts in Visio. The last three are specific to Visio...
Date: 07/11/2006