John Goldsmith's visLog

Changing page size for all pages

A newsgroup poster has asked how to change the page size for all pages in a document in one go.  Although there’s no way of doing this through the UI, a code based answer to the problem is fairly straight forward and I think makes a nice simple first try at VBA for anyone that hasn’t had a go…

New Visio Webcast Series

 

I’ve just received details of a new Visio webcast series, named Let us show you how!, which is going to be running over the next six weeks.  First one is this afternoon (depending on where you are of course).  Details are copied below:

Visio and Bing (Virtual Earth)

I've recently been involved in a WPF based project that utilises Microsoft Virtual Earth and I thought it would make an interesting exercise to combine this with Visio's Save As Web output.

I've uploaded a live demo over here that shows how clicking a shape, containing a latitude and longitude string, can update a Virtual Earth map embedded in the toolbar panel on the left hand side.

I'm not going to go into lots of detail about how to use Virtual Earth as the main purpose of this post is to demonstrate how to connect it to Visio web output, but if you want to find out more then here are a few links to get you going:

• Live Services - Microsoft Virtual Earth
• Virtual Earth Interactive SDK
• MSDN - Virtual Earth Map Control SDK 6.2