Chris Castillo's WebLog
Visio Solution Development
Creating Visio Add-ins with VSTO 2005 SE
Introduction On November 2006, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Office...
Date: 03/28/2007
Visio 2007 SDK
The Visio 2007 SDK available for all of you to try out. Here are a few new things in Visio 2007 SDK:...
Date: 05/23/2006
Creating Visio Add-Ins/Add-ons with Visual Studio 2005
Some of you have discovered that the Visio Add-in or Add-on Wizard does not work in Visual Studio...
Date: 11/21/2005
Visio Connector for MBSA article and source code
Visimation, one of our Gold Certified partners, has published an article on the Visio Connector for...
Date: 11/17/2005
Dragging-and-dropping from Custom Anchor Bar Windows
I think the Visio application environment is pretty impressive because of all the things you can do...
Date: 02/08/2005
Visio Connector for MBSA
Visio 2003 continues to be an essential application in the IT professional’s toolbox. It allows you...
Date: 02/07/2005
Automating the Timeline Shapes: Part 2
My good buddy Bill (no, not G) ran into an oddity when trying to automate the timeline shape. After...
Date: 11/17/2004
Automating the Timeline Shapes: How many inches are in November?
Like many of the out-of-the-box shapes in Microsoft Office Visio 2003, the Timeline shapes are quite...
Date: 11/12/2004
Custom Property Quirk in SaveAsWeb
One of our keen partners from the UK pointed out a slight quirk with the SaveAsWeb feature. Suppose...
Date: 11/11/2004
IOleCommandTarget Issues
I know many of you have run into some issues when using the Visio ActiveX control's...
Date: 11/04/2004
"Calling" COM add-ins from the ShapeSheet
Many developers are used to calling VSL or EXE add-ons from ShapeSheet cells. Many of us, however,...
Date: 11/03/2004
Attention all Visio Solution Developers!!!!
You know, I absolutely love Visio and think that it's a killer app for modeling the real world and...
Date: 11/03/2004