This post explains how one can set up a standard SharePoint document library to store Visio drawings, with option to create new drawings from a custom template (i.e. to allow your custom templates under “New” button in SharePoint). I’ve spent some time figuring this out for myself.. 🙂 Can be …
Davd J. Parker’s new Visio 2013 book was recently released by PACKT Publishing: Microsoft Visio 2013 Business Process Diagramming and Validation I personally participated in the review process of this book (as a technical reviewer), and I would like to recommend the book for all Visio users and developers, who …
Small fix in validation – now instead of big ugly message box in case formula cannot be set (e.g. if there is a syntax error in formula), a nice small tip message is shown =)
Here is the updated version (1.0.6). See basic info in the previous post, where the tool was introduced. Added: Now supports multi-select. You can select several shapes, and change a ShapeSheet cell for all of them at once, so you don’t need to edit it for each shape individuality. Highlight of …
Many drawing products feature so-called base point operations. In particular, AutoCad has Copy with base point, Move with base point. This operation may be quite useful for precise positioning of the content being copied/moved. To achieve this, at the first step a base point is selected, and on the second …
A milestone of the VisioWixSetup project I’ve been working on – now it can be used to publish anything Visio Solution Publishing Tool could publish, and Visio could understand =) The changes in this version: – Added support for publishing ADDONS (EXE/VSL) and help files. – Fixed an issue with …
The WiX project template for Visio allows you to create an installer for installing Microsoft Visio content (stencils, templates, VSL and EXE add-ons, help files). This project brings the functionality of Visio Solution Publishing tool from Visio SDK into WiX, so now you can author setup which includes registration (publishing) …
I have improved the WiX project template by creating a real WiX compiler extension. That is, now you can register Visio files with WiX like this (minimalistic example includes just one extra line to publish file): The updated version is available in Visual Studio Galery: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/68d12e2d-eb42-4847-808a-7d80863bb90d
The Visio Wix setup project was improved a bit. To simplify things, I’ve published it as a project template for Visual Studio in Visual Studio Galery. This is the first time I publish anything in Visual Studio Galery, so that was a bit interesting how to make the wheels rolling: …
