Jump to Shape

This tiny plugin adds Jump to shape in Drawing Explorer command to Visio, which may become quite handy if you work with some complex drawings. The command is to be found in the context menu of the shape (when Visio runs in developer mode). Remember to turn it on for …

Using the same set of button images with transparency in all Visio versions

If you write a Visio add-in that targets multiple Visio versions at the same time, and have some custom buttons with images (with transparency), you might run into trouble with that new Visio 2010 Ribbon user interface needs different “flavor” of images compared to Visio 2003 and 2007. So you’ll …

Persisting Visio shapes

This article explains this post in microsoft.public.visio.developers newsgroup, and provides information on how one can to save Visio shapes in external source exactly, so here is the code to store master/shape in a stream and then drop it back to the document: To save Visio shapes in some external system (persist …