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New Microsoft Visio

• 10 tips for developers working with the Visio VSDX file format

  29 Jan 2013

  The new Visio introduces a new XML-based file format, VSDX. In a previous post , we provided an overview of the new file format. One benefit of the new file format is its interoperability: it is now much easier to work with the default file format outside of Visio. In this post, we provide some tips...
• Printing in Visio made easier

  15 Jan 2013

  It's easy to create beautiful, professional diagrams in Visio, but what if you need to print your drawings to review during a meeting or display as a poster? The new Visio provides a cleaner, quicker, and more streamlined printing experience. Along with the same easy-to-use print tab in the backstage...
• Download the free Microsoft Visio Viewer

  28 Nov 2012

  The Microsoft Visio Viewer is a free download that lets anyone view Visio drawings without having Visio installed on their computer. If you have Visio, you can still benefit from the viewer because it allows you to preview drawings in both Outlook and the Windows Preview pane. We recommend that everyone...
• Introducing BPMN 2.0 in Visio

  19 Nov 2012

  Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a standard maintained by the Object Management Group that allows businesses to document and communicate business processes uniformly using graphical notation. The new version of Visio supports BPMN 2.0, which is the current version of the standard, and corresponding...
• SharePoint 2013 workflows in Visio

  12 Nov 2012

  Visualizing processes is at the heart of Visio's DNA and in Visio 2010 we took a big step forward in that area by including support for SharePoint workflows. This lets users create a workflow in Visio, import it into SharePoint Designer, and make it an executable workflow on SharePoint. In the new Visio...
• Containers and callouts in Visio

  5 Nov 2012

  Containers are a convenient way to visually group your shapes together and then easily work with that group. Callouts provide a simple mechanism to attach text to a shape. We’ve improved both in the new Visio. Specifically, there are more shapes to give you increased flexibility to express your...
• Database Notations tap the full power of Visio

  24 Oct 2012

  Database templates have a fresh, modern look in the new Visio. In our new approach , templates focus on the on-canvas experience, which makes them great for brainstorming, free-form diagramming and collaborating on ideas. There are four database templates: Chen's, Crow's Foot, IDEF1X and UML. Each template...
• UML and Database diagrams in the new Visio

  17 Oct 2012

  Developers and IT professionals frequently use Visio to design and document software and database systems. They recognize the benefits of visualizing complex systems to understand relationships and dependencies, and Visio makes it easy to communicate and socialize designs across the team. As a result...
• Webinar: What is Visio? (and preview Visio 2013)

  15 Oct 2012

  Learn about Visio--designed to help you make great diagrams faster--and preview the latest version. See how Visio creates flowcharts, room layouts, timelines, organizational charts and a lot more. This video is also available at Microsoft Showcase . You can also watch a 30-second trailer . What you will...
• Visio reaches RTM!

  11 Oct 2012

  The Visio team has signed off on the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build of the new Visio. On behalf of the team, I'd like to thank all of the users of the Customer Preview—your great feedback helped us fix bugs and refine new features. Please keep the feedback coming! The new Visio will be available...
• Insights for developers about Change Shape

  10 Oct 2012

  Lots of customers have told us that they want to exchange one shape with another without losing the text, connections and formatting. The Change Shape feature in the new Visio gives you this functionality. In this post, we will review the Change Shape feature and talk about the implications of the feature...
• Top timeline tips in Visio

  8 Oct 2012

  With the new Visio you can quickly create clean, organized timelines that make it easy to order events and share information. Improvements we made across the product allow the new timelines to take on a variety of different looks to create beautiful, professional diagrams. Specifically, we made it easier...
• The new Visio start experience

  2 Oct 2012

  The new Visio start experience is all about helping you quickly and easily find the template you need to begin your diagramming experience. You'll see that we've updated all our template icons to be simpler and easier to quickly scan. We've also color coded them, so that, for example, all the flowchart...
• API for Themes in the new Visio

  19 Sep 2012

  In a previous blog post , we introduced the new themes, variants, and styles feature in the new Visio. Not only does this feature make it easy and fast for users to create professional looking diagrams , it also fully supports programmatic access. This post will focus on how to use the new API methods...
• Sharing Diagrams with Visio Services

  18 Sep 2012

  The new Visio offers a number of new capabilities - the modern look of the app, new themes and shapes for making professional-looking diagrams, new ways to collaborate with multiple authors and reviewers. We’ve also made it much easier to share those diagrams with your coworkers and friends –...
• API in the new Visio

  12 Sep 2012

  Our previous posts have discussed some of the great end user features we’ve added to the new Visio. For developers, the new Visio supports programmatic access for many of its new features. The new Visio API contains methods that let developers change shapes and pictures, add comments, duplicate...
• VSDX: the new Visio file format

  10 Sep 2012

  Visio 2003, 2007 and 2010 all had the same primary Visio Drawing (VSD) file format. For most users, this was great: files could be shared easily between these three versions of Visio. There were, however, some drawbacks. Most notably, the primary format was binary, which limited both the information...
• Collaborating in Visio

  27 Aug 2012

  Our customers say they spend a lot of time coordinating and communicating with coworkers to get their daily work done. Whether you’re working on a simple illustration or a flowchart documenting an extremely complex process, it’s not uncommon to have to go through multiple revisions, get feedback...
• Visualize your organization like never before in the new Visio

  20 Aug 2012

  Organization Charts (Org Charts) are one of the most popular templates in Visio. An org chart helps you create a visualization of your team or organization in terms of relationships among people. While org charts are commonly used to show employees within a reporting hierarchy, they can also be used...
• How to add reflection, glow, rotation and other effects to your Visio shapes

  16 Aug 2012

  One of the many tools you’ll find in the new Visio to help you make your diagrams look modern and professionally designed is the addition of shape effects. If you’ve used effects like shadow or reflection in PowerPoint you’re already familiar with how effects can add visual impact to...