In your quest to create a Visio-based application you're not likely to find yourself stranded on a Visio-based-island. You'll probably find yourself strolling through a land filled with other software products that need to join you on your journey.

So if your wanderings take you through the towns of Access, Excel, Active Directory, SQL Server, MOM, Exchange, Reporting Services, or SharePoint, then you've stopped at the right place to get directions!

The good citizens at Visimation have authored eight -- that's E-I-G-H-T-! -- articles to guide you on your path towards integrating Visio with Microsoft technologies...

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Hello Visio Fans! I received a Visio Partner e-mail a few days ago that contains a fabulous set of links to Visio How-To demo videos. The demos cover new Visio 2007 topics such as DataGraphics, Themes, AutoConnect, PivotDiagrams and Vista integration.

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So Visio 2007 has been released, and...well...I'd love to say that I've been pounding the pavement, doing a ton of research, and have dug up the latest scoop, but the guys over at Visio Insights have written a nice post entitled: What's so great about Visio 2007? that anyone'd be hard pressed to beat.

There's some nice screenshots of the new datagraphics and pivot charts that are available in the new version, as well as links to Visio 2007 new-feature videos and other online resources. So go on over and have a look, and tell 'em Visio Guy sent you!

I'm getting more and more questions daily about the soon-to-be-released Microsoft Office Visio 2007. Evidently, the final bits for the Office 2007 system have been released to manufacturing, but the products won't be available 'til early 2007.
For now, however you can play with beta 2, and check out the latest Visio 2007 product information in the following paragraphs...
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