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Visio Solution Development

Creating Visio Add-ins with VSTO 2005 SE

Introduction On November 2006, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Office...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/28/2007

Visio 2007 SDK

The Visio 2007 SDK available for all of you to try out. Here are a few new things in Visio 2007 SDK:...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/23/2006

Creating Visio Add-Ins/Add-ons with Visual Studio 2005

Some of you have discovered that the Visio Add-in or Add-on Wizard does not work in Visual Studio...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/21/2005

Visio Connector for MBSA article and source code

Visimation, one of our Gold Certified partners, has published an article on the Visio Connector for...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/17/2005

Dragging-and-dropping from Custom Anchor Bar Windows

I think the Visio application environment is pretty impressive because of all the things you can do...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/08/2005

Visio Connector for MBSA

Visio 2003 continues to be an essential application in the IT professional’s toolbox. It allows you...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/07/2005

Automating the Timeline Shapes: Part 2

My good buddy Bill (no, not G) ran into an oddity when trying to automate the timeline shape. After...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/17/2004

Automating the Timeline Shapes: How many inches are in November?

Like many of the out-of-the-box shapes in Microsoft Office Visio 2003, the Timeline shapes are quite...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/12/2004

Custom Property Quirk in SaveAsWeb

One of our keen partners from the UK pointed out a slight quirk with the SaveAsWeb feature. Suppose...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/11/2004

IOleCommandTarget Issues

I know many of you have run into some issues when using the Visio ActiveX control's...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/04/2004

"Calling" COM add-ins from the ShapeSheet

Many developers are used to calling VSL or EXE add-ons from ShapeSheet cells. Many of us, however,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/03/2004

Attention all Visio Solution Developers!!!!

You know, I absolutely love Visio and think that it's a killer app for modeling the real world and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/03/2004