Exporting Visio 2010 Diagrams to PowerPoint 2010

Summary:  A series of four articles that discusses how to convert and export Microsoft Visio 2010 shapes to Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. In the process, the series shows how to customize the Visio 2010 ribbon, how to look up shape conversion values, how to control one Microsoft Office 2010 application from another application, how to read formatting values from the ShapeSheet of a Visio shape, and how to programmatically re-create a Visio diagram on a Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 slide.

Applies to: Office 2010 | PowerPoint 2010 | SharePoint Server 2010 | Visio 2010 | Visio Premium 2010

Published:  June 2012

Provided by:  Eric Schmidt, Microsoft Corporation

Contents

• Part 1: Setting up the Visio solution and customizing the ribbon

• Part 2: Writing the classes and methods that convert and export Visio 2010 diagrams to PowerPoint 2010

• Part 3: Automating PowerPoint 2010 and creating slides, shapes, connectors, and pictures by using data from the Visio 2010 shapes

• Part 4: Testing the add-in that exports Visio 2010 diagrams to PowerPoint 2010

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Additional Resources

Visio 2010: Software Development Kit

The PowerPoint 2010 Primary Interop Assembly Reference

The Office Developer Resources Ribbon UI Add-In

Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)

Ribbon XML

Visio Developer Center

Visio 2010: Exporting Visio 2010 Diagrams to PowerPoint 2010