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Visio Group on Drop

I spent a few hours tonight trying to figure out why dropping a shape onto a group was no longer working. The concept is that you can specify a shape as a group and then drop another shape on top of it and the second shape becomes part of the original group. This requires thatContinue reading “Visio Group on Drop”

Visio Shape Data Dialog box

You can add shape data in several places in Visio. To a shape, to a page or to a document. The first two have a dialog associated with them so the user can use the UI to modify the values. Though you can add shape data to the document shapesheet, you can not easily manipulateContinue reading “Visio Shape Data Dialog box”

Visio WP7 stencil

Someone asked in the AppHub if there was a Visio stencil for Windows Phone 7. There actually was one created by a member of the WP7 team and I was able to get a copy. It is a basic stencil, but I am currently upgrading it to be more Visio-like. Most of this can beContinue reading “Visio WP7 stencil”

Upgrading to Expression Web

This week there were changes to the site that hosts Visio.MVPs.org and the site lost it’s navigation capabilities so I had to scramble and upgrade the site from FrontPage to Expression Web. In general, it was a very painless experience, but there was a lot to learn. Using Master.dwtmade life very easy, but for someContinue reading “Upgrading to Expression Web”

What is in the Visio XML format?

For those who want assistance with reading the Visio xml format, (*.vdx), Microsoft has made the XML Schema Definition files (*.XSD) available for download. Visio 2010 XSD John Marshall… Visio MVP Visio.MVPs.org

Visio – Non standard Timelines

One of the long time requests for the Visio timeline is to support something other than standard dates and times, items that are not related to the standard concept of time. This can be accomplished by NOT using date formats in the shapes. Each shape is grouped and has a top level shape that containsContinue reading “Visio – Non standard Timelines”

Visio 2010 SBS

I finally got a real copy of Visio 2010 Step by Step by fellow Visio MVP Scott Helmers. It looks far nicer than the copy I edited. I really had to get nitpicky to comment on the book. Other than not putting “u” in “colour”, he is a good writer and there was a goodContinue reading “Visio 2010 SBS”

Pretender to the Throne

I see that SmartDraw is still not being honest when they compare themselves to Visio. Visio was the innovator in business graphics alomst twenty years ago. There is always a competitor who wants to grow their business by comparing themselves to the innovator. CorelFlow did that for awhile. So what is wrong with the comparison?Continue reading “Pretender to the Throne”

The Ribbon is cute, but where is…

With Visio 2010, Visio has now joined the other core Office apps and now supports the ribbon. The ribbon on displays what is relavent for the task at hand. With the old menus, I ended up turning almost all of them on and wasting screen real estate. So in a way, I like the newContinue reading “The Ribbon is cute, but where is…”