Spring has arrived and baseball season is upon us! Whether you follow the professional leagues, play recreationally or coach in the little leagues, there is one thread that ties all baseball enthusiasts together – a passion for stats. In this article and the attached diagram, we present a baseball scoring sheet that you can use to track the action in each game. You can use the diagram as-is or customize it to your liking. Print and Go The Visio Baseball Scorecard is intended to be printed and...

March Madness is about to start, so here’s a Visio diagram to let you quickly fill out and share your bracket! Download the diagram here, and with a few clicks you can have a complete professional looking bracket that you can easily share with others. This diagram was originally created by Visio MVP Chris Roth, who runs the Visio Guy blog. The bracket has the first 64 teams already filled out. All you need to do is select the winners. You can fill out the bracket using Visio in one of the following...

In our last post , we talked about Visio Services--a new feature of SharePoint 2010 that extends the reach of Visio diagrams considerably. Visio Services lets you: View diagrams in the browser even if you don’t have Visio installed Refresh data-driven diagrams in the browser Integrate diagrams into SharePoint applications In this post, we explain how to create a Visio Web Drawing ( *.VDW ) file using Visio Professional 2010 or Visio Premium 2010. The Visio Web Drawing (*.VDW) is a new Visio...

Visio has long been regarded by interaction designers and information architects as an essential tool in their work. Many software wireframes (aka software mockups) are built using Visio, and they can range from mobile software, interactive web sites, to enterprise application software. In the past, Visio included a set of Windows XP stencils for such work. For Visio 2010, we decided to refresh those stencils by providing a brand new set of Wireframe shapes that are generic and not specific to the...

Visio has published the XML Schema Definition (XSD) files for the Microsoft Visio 2010 XML Drawing (.vdx) format. This schema is also known as DatadiagramML. The .XSD files allow developers to better understand the structure of Visio XML documents and design solutions that work with the .VDX file format. The DatadiagramML Schema for Visio 2010 consists of three .XSD files: visio.xsd is the core schema used by Visio 2003 and later visio12.xsd is the set of extensions used by Visio 2007 and later visio14...

If you’re an IT administrator managing multiple copies of Visio and Office 2010, this post explains some changes and improvements we’ve made to the deployment experience for Visio 2010. Visio 2010 deployment is a little different than Office 2010 deployment, and this article will illustrate all those differences. Volume Activation Methods There are two supported volume activation methods for Visio and Office 2010: Key Management Service (KMS) . KMS uses a host computer to establish an...

In Visio 2010, we completely revamped the Visio user interface and adopted the Office Fluent UI or the “Ribbon”. With the Office Fluent UI, Visio’s extensive capabilities are organized into logical, easy to find groups that help you accomplish tasks efficiently. The breakdown of each of the core tabs in the Visio 2010 Ribbon was explained in a previous post . Although the Office Fluent UI was designed to help make the Office applications easier to work with, we realize that there...

One of the goals of the Visio 2010 release is to make it easier to create attractive, presentation-quality diagrams. Previously on this blog, we have discussed our improvements to backgrounds , layout , routing , and themes . Visio 2010 also features improvements to the default look of many templates, as well as over 500 newly designed shapes. Below are a few highlights of these changes. New default theme Many Visio 2010 templates feature a new, consistent set of default line, font, and shadow properties...

The Service Pack 3 (SP3) update for Visio 2007 is now available. It includes a variety of new security, stability and performance improvements as well as all previous updates and hotfixes released through August 2011. The SP releases are cumulative, so it is not necessary to apply any earlier service pack releases to get all previous updates. A number of issues that have been addressed in previous hotfixes are included in this SP. The most significant of these are: Corrected an issue that caused...

Yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 . This wave of releases includes updates to Visio 2010 and the Visio Viewer. Here are the links for downloading: Visio 2010 SP1 32-bit 64-bit Visio Viewer 2010 SP1 32-bit 64-bit There are a couple noteworthy improvements in Visio 2010 SP1:The updates to Visio 2010 include stability, security, and performance improvements. SP1 includes the Cumulative Updates and Public Updates to Visio since RTM a...