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Revised the schematic for Vienna’s Christmas Markets, check it out here: https://vienna-christmas-markets.unmanagedvisio.com/ Enhancements include a switch to a dark theme using updated CSS styles, and significant updates to the Excel file for the 2023 season. New rows have been added to the Excel sheet, providing current year data, along with …
My wrapper SPFx web part for embedding Visio diagram in modern SharePoint page has been just published in the Microsoft store (it’s free and open source). The app has been validated by Microsoft SPFx validation team and now available in the app catalog: https://appsource.microsoft.com/en/product/office/WA200002491 The WebPart details: https://unmanagedvisio.com/products/diagram-frame-sharepoint-visio-web-part/ Diagram Frame …
These notes basically summarize setting up automated build for Office extensions (such as VSTO) in the cloud (i.e. Azure DevOps). Note that Azure DevOps supports private repositories for free. For open source repositories, it does not even impose any limitations (for private repositories, max build time per month is limited, …
This article summarizes my experience on translating office add-in to multiple language. It is not an official guide, but just how you could do it. It assumes you have an office extension (VSTO, desktop) in a single language, and want to provide it in some other languages for users in …
The import/export VBA extension supports not only the UI (button-click), but also command line interface! It was not initially documented (now it is), but the tool includes command-line utility as well, so that one can use it with powershell script or a batch file (for batch processing of files), or in …
Recently published all javascript, html, and css code of scripts used in html publishing to the GitHub for the upcoming version 1.1: https://github.com/nbelyh/svgpublish-templates This repository contains the default built-in templates, that are used in the Svg Publish extension The scripts/style files are bundled and minified at the build time by the …
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 …
Hi all, Have recently have created an extension to import/export VBA code from a Visio drawing or stencil. You can find this useful if you want to track VBA source code changes in your Visio files, like compare current version of the code with the past version. Could make sense to use together with some version …
If you want to create a Visio add-in, there are several options available. You can go with plain COM addin, VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) addin, or with a VSL. This project template provides an improved starting point to build managed Visio addins with Visual studio (including free Visual Studio Community Edition). Link …
