John Goldsmith's visLog

Enhancing Visio Event Monitor Output

The Visio Event Monitor that's part of the SDK is a great tool for understanding how Visio works and the events that are firing away while you work. So in this post I thought I'd demonstrate a quick technique for making the output a little easier to read.

Visio Congress Shapes - Construction

Following on from my previous post, I thought I'd move on and look at some interesting aspects of the Congress shapes from a Visio construction perspective.

Visio Congress Shapes

This post is inspired by the US mid-term elections back in November and I thought I’d put some shapes together in Visio to represent the Senate and House of Representatives.

Visio interop with .NET Core 3.0

There was an announcement last week of the second preview of .NET Core 3.0. Scrolling down the page, one item that caught my eye was the section on Windows Native Interop. This includes COM and therefore Visio. The post highlights a dotnet sample that targets Excel and so I thought I have a quick go at trying this against Visio as well.