If you’ve purchased my new book, Using Microsoft Visio 2010, or are contemplating purchasing it, you’ll be pleased to know that it comes with a free web edition. This allows you to not only watch the companion videos and listen to the audio snippets, but also conveniently access the entire book electronically, in full color!
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Using Microsoft Visio 2010 Book is Here!
I got home today and found a mysterious package on my desk.
Since I hadn’t ordered anything recently, I had a hunch what it might be…
New Article about Validation Rules in Visio 2010
What if you could click a button and have Visio notify you if a drawing was incorrect, had errors, or did not follow your company’s standards?
Visio 2010 offers this capability, and more information is coming out on how to use validation and develop custom rules every day!
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Visio and SharePoint Article Series
Visio Services for SharePoint has people excited about melding two great technologies together.
Wictor Wilén is a SharePoint expert who has started a series of articles about Visio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 that you’ll want to follow.
How to Publish Visio 2010 Drawings to a SharePoint Site
Are you a Visio user?
Is your company using SharePoint Server 2010?
Wonder how you can make them work together?
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Sample Chapter for Rules & Validation Book
You might have heard about David Parker’s new book about Visio 2010 Premium’s Rules and Validation for process diagramming.
We’ve just discovered that there’s a free chapter available online, so you can kick the tires before you buy!
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New Book: Visio 2010 Rules, Validation & Business Process Diagramming
Visio 2010 Premium introduces powerful mechanisms for validating diagrams to insure graphical and semantic correctness. Not only does this feature allow end-users to check and correct their diagrams, it enables developers to create custom rule sets to validate corporate- or discipline-specific diagrams.
David Parker’s new book: Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation explains Visio diagram validation, the APIs behind it, and helps you to build tools to make it all easier!
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SharePoint 2010, PowerPivot, Visio 2010 & Real Estate
There’s a lot of buzz lately about Visio Services for SharePoint 2010.
It looks like it’s appeared on the Real Estate industry’s radar, as they seek to use tools to make their business more efficient.
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Visio 2010 Flowchart Shapes Get Smarter
Visio 2010’s flowchart shapes have gotten smarter.
See how they save you work when you add lots of text to them!
World Cup 2010 in Visio…and SharePoint!
If you’re a visual type who loves Visio, and are excited or interested in Visio Services for SharePoint 2010, then you’ll want to check out this on-line example that shows off both of them in action!
It looks like Microsoft have linked World Cup 2010 data to Visio diagrams. Then they rather slickly published the diagrams to a SharePoint site using Visio Services (as far as I can tell)
Interactive, up-to-date diagrams, created with your favorite diagram-authoring tool and brought to life by the SharePoint portal platform.
Come on in and see what your favorite team is up to!