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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:35 AM

Visio Use at Microsoft: Vaca Bubble Chart for Revenue Reporting

Visio lets people communicate business information in a variety of innovative ways. One example is in use by the Visio team for revenue reporting. The Visio product management team built a dynamic bubble chart diagram to report on Visio sales by national
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:57 AM

Dev Luv: Editing Visio Masters

The shapes that you see on the stencil on the left pane of Visio are called “masters.” Think of a master as an object. When you drag a master from the stencil, you are dropping an instance of that master object onto the page. That instance, which we call
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:00 AM

Office 2003 SP1 Whitepaper (Includes Visio 2003 SP1 Details)

I’ve posted a whitepaper from the Office Supportability Group that details what is in Office SP1, which everyone should install if you are using any Office 2003 application. SP1 is available as separate downloadable patches for OneNote, MUIs, Project
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:21 AM

Dev Luv: Hotfix for Control Developers

If you're developing on the Visio 2003 ActiveX control, please install this hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;884592 It fixes a nasty page fault problem in the control. Developers and end users of the control solutions should
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:08 PM

Dev Luv: Webcast on Programming Visio

I’m doing a webcast tomorrow called “Programming the Visio Development Platform” if you want to check it out. You can register for it at: http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032269605%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:33 PM

Dev Luv: Visio --> SVG --> XAML

I’ve gotten some questions about Visio’s ability to import or export XAML-based graphics files. Visio can’t do this today but you can use Visio 2003’s SVG functionality to achieve the same goal. You can save a Visio diagram out as SVG and then use a SVG
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:58 AM

Dev Luv: Step-by-Step Tutorial on Developing Visio Shapes Using ShapeStudio

We just published an article on MSDN that provides a step-by-step tutorial for using ShapeStudio to build shapes. It’s a good way to get started with the tool since it walks through the typical actions a shape developer might take. -- Mai-lan
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:11 AM

Dev Luv: Visio 2003 Drawing Control in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1

The Visio 2003 Drawing Control does not work in the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1. We’ve done some testing on more recent builds of the VS 2005 bits (post-beta 1 bits), and the control does work in the more recent builds. This will be fixed by Visual Studio
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Monday, February 14, 2005 11:31 AM

Dev Luv: Distributing Custom Visio Stencils

Visio 2003 lets developers integrate their Visio content installation with a Windows Installer application. There are publish component table entries that can be added to MSI files to tell Visio about new Visio content (stencils, templates and add-ons).
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Friday, February 04, 2005 10:31 AM

Dev Luv: Follow-up on Digital Certificate Question

A blog reader asked if it was possible to get a cheaper digital certificate for a smaller dev shop. I looked into this and unfortunately, there is no special discount for individual software production houses. The real issue when talking certificates
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 10:14 PM

Dev Luv: More Info on Digital Signing

I’ve gotten lots of mail from Visio blog readers who are still confused about how digital signing works for any Office solution. Siew-Moi Khor, a Programmer/Writer in the MS Office organization who writes seriously good documentation on complex topics,
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Friday, January 28, 2005 1:40 PM

Visio Use at Microsoft: Business Process Management Automation

Visio's “visualize information” mantra applies to many different customer scenarios. In the next several blog entries, I’m going to focus on several different uses of Visio within Microsoft. I’ll show screen shots where I can (e.g., I don’t have to scrub
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Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:29 PM

Dev Luv: Digital Signatures for Visio Documents

If you are shipping a custom ActiveX control in your Visio solution, it’s important to know that Visio creates a VBA project when you embed an ActiveX control in a Visio document. That means that you need to sign both the custom ActiveX control and the
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Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:02 PM

Dev Luv: Guidelines for Developing Visio Managed COM Add-ins

If you are developing a Visio (or any Office) managed-code COM add-in, these resources will come in handy: 1. This PIA article is the best place to start to learn more about installing and using Office 2003 PIAs. 2. If Microsoft provides an official PIA,
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Friday, January 14, 2005 12:49 PM

Visio Program Manager Job Opening

In the spirit of networking, can you recommend or refer anyone that you think may be qualified or have an interest in the position below? We are looking for candidates who would like to Join Microsoft's award-winning Visio Team within Office. Come join
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