Al Edlund

Using Visio 2010 Containers & Lists to Create Server Drilldowns with Excel Data

June 5, 2010 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

If you aren’t interested in using Visio 2010 for creating sophisticated network rack diagrams, then you probably should be.

Today, fellow Visio-fan Al Edlund tells you why he loves to do this, shares insights on the matter, demos solutions he built, and offers a complete VS 2010 project, written in VB.NET, to help you get started!

The code shows you how to get network data from Excel, how to use the new List and Container shapes in Visio 2010, and how to manipulate them programmatically. All this to make your network diagrams even more powerful and easy to use!

Path Analysis in Visio

April 8, 2009 By Visio Guy 11 Comments

If you’re trying to take Visio to the next level by writing code for custom solutions, then you’ve likely run into some aspect of connections.

The well-commented VBA code (provided by guest-poster Al Edlund) which accompanies this article will help you make programmatic sense of the elemental stuff of connected Visio diagrams: connectors, connection points, OneD shapes, Connect and FromConnect.

You’ll also see how to produce connected diagrams, find out which shape is connected to which, and more importantly, do some path analysis to find the deeper meaning behind it all!