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Visio 2007: PivotDiagram Tips and Tricks, part 2
In the first PivotDiagram tips post, I talked about some of the alternate ways to create a new...
Author: wmorein Date: 07/10/2006
Visio Conference 2006 presentations available online
If you didn't get a chance to make it to the Visio Conference we held in January, we've put up...
Author: wmorein Date: 07/01/2006
Visio 2007: Value Stream Mapping
Over the last several years, we have seen Lean become more and more prominent as a process...
Author: wmorein Date: 06/28/2006
Visio 2007: Test Drive
I've started focusing more and more on the new features in Visio 2007 and will definitely continue...
Author: wmorein Date: 06/27/2006
Visio 2007: Publish as PDF or XPS
As many of you know, Visio 2007 and the other Office applications will support exporting to Adobe...
Author: wmorein Date: 06/23/2006
Visio 2007: PivotDiagram tips and tricks, part 1
Eric posted a little bit about PivotDiagrams and what you can do with them. I’d like to add a little...
Author: wmorein Date: 06/22/2006
Allowing half “U” sizes in Rack Diagrams
In this post, I discussed some general tips on how to work with shapes with intelligent behaviors....
Author: wmorein Date: 06/20/2006
Visio 2007: Customizing Data Graphic Items
After spending a couple days chatting with people here at TechEd, I am amazed at how many people...
Author: wmorein Date: 06/15/2006
Tricks for working with the built in Visio shapes
Having shapes that work intelligently is one of the most powerful aspects of Visio. A lot of the...
Author: wmorein Date: 06/14/2006
Visio in Visual Studio Tools for Office - Public Preview Availability
I mentioned earlier the release of VSTO for Visio Beta 1 users. Now that Beta 2 is available, I’m...
Author: wmorein Date: 06/07/2006
Bug in Creating Visio COM Add-ins with Visual Studio 2005
In this post I describe how to create Visio COM Add-ins with VS2005. It turns out that the add-ins...
Author: wmorein Date: 05/26/2006
PIAs and Version Compatibility
With the upcoming release of Visio 2007, I’ve had a number of questions recently about the .Net...
Author: wmorein Date: 05/25/2006
Announcing the Visio Insights Blog
I’d like to let everyone know about the new Visio Insights blog, a joint blog written by the Visio...
Author: wmorein Date: 05/24/2006
Visio 2007 Beta 2 Publicly Available
Along with the rest of the 2007 Office system, Visio 2007 Beta 2 is now available for public...
Author: wmorein Date: 05/23/2006
Visio in Visual Studio Tools for Office
A longstanding request from Visio developers has been support in Visual Studio Tools for Office...
Author: wmorein Date: 05/11/2006
TechEd Session
I'll be presenting a session at TechEd in Boston on programming the new Visio 2007 data features....
Author: wmorein Date: 05/10/2006
ShapeSheet tutorial, part 1
For this post, I'll walk through the process of building up a shape from scratch and editing it...
Author: wmorein Date: 01/31/2006
Introduction to the ShapeSheet
The ShapeSheet is probably the most overlooked part of Visio. The amount of power that you can get...
Author: wmorein Date: 01/27/2006
Visio Conference Kickoff
Customers and partners are starting to arrive in Seattle for the sold out Visio Conference, starting...
Author: wmorein Date: 01/18/2006
Rate My Network Diagram
In the post yesterday, I started to cover some analytic ways to think about building up data...
Author: wmorein Date: 12/28/2005
Visio 2003 Resource Kit for IT Professionals
The first version of the Resource Kit for IT Professionals was a huge hit with customers, so a few...
Author: wmorein Date: 12/27/2005
Visio Connector for Project/EPM/SPS
A new tool (including source code) has been posted on GotDotNet: the Visio Connector for...
Author: wmorein Date: 12/21/2005
Visio "12" blog
Eric Rockey, the Lead Program Manager for Visio, has started a blog that will cover the new features...
Author: wmorein Date: 12/19/2005
Creating Visio COM Add-ins with Visual Studio 2005
The Add-in/Add-on wizards that shipped with the Visio 2003 SDK are designed for Visual Studio 2003....
Author: wmorein Date: 11/18/2005
Additional tricks for building UI mockups with Visio
In this post, Mai-lan talks about how we use Visio to build mockups of the UI for new features. Of...
Author: wmorein Date: 11/17/2005
Save as Web and IE security
The Visio "Save as Web Page" feature (updated in Visio 2003) is really great if you need to put your...
Author: wmorein Date: 11/02/2005