Back-Sync: Visio “backward” data synchronization

Visio has a nice feature, which allows you to link data to shapes. This allows you to create interactive dashboards for example, display data graphics which reflect the current state of some system on Visio diagrams, etc. One thing may is occasionally needed, is a possibility to update your data source from Visio diagram. Meet the new …

Using SolutionXML with C#

Visio has a feature which allows third-party solutions to store it’s custom data in Visio files as XML fragments. It might be useful if you don’t want to litter document or shapes shapesheet(s) with your data. Also it has an advantage that setting it, unlike setting cells in shapesheet, does …

Visio project templates updated (Visio 2016, VS 2015 support)

Visio project templates updated to version 1.0.7: – added support for Visual Studio 2015 – added support for Visio 2016 – Simplified source code (removed extra files, so that project structure is more like vanilla VS). – Unified project wizard. Now there is one wizard to rule it all. It …