Visio Guy

If you're a developer, looking to create Visio-based solutions, then you're going to need to programmatically connect Visio shapes together. Wouldn't be nice to have a snippet or two to start from?

Today's post shows you VB and C# code that instructs Visio to connect every shape to every other shape, and to create a beautiful mess, like that shown in the image at left.

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I hear quite often the question; "How do I do something in Visio programmatically?" Since many of those requests pertain to flowcharts and organizational charts, I thought I'd conjure up a fairly simple example that illustrates the creation of a flowchart with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code.

This isn't the simplest example, because I thought it would be important to show how a decision-branch might be handled.

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