We, as a family, are in the process of de-cluttering our house for hopefully a move closer to the south coast, so I decided to take a photo of my Visio books collection, and as you can see, back in the mid-1990’s, I started reading and learning from other peoples works, and then progressed to writing my own from 2007. This shows how mature the Visio desktop product is, and as very little has been removed, then each book has something to learn.
In fact, Graham Wideman’s Microsoft Visio 2003 Developer’s Survival Pack was the third edition that I had of this useful book … I still use this fairly frequently for checking more esoteric Visio information.
Visio was the first non-Microsoft application that had VBA built into it, so I originally used this to develop code, but when I started writing add-ins for others, in seemed natural to use VB, originally with a C++ wrapper to create add-ons, then moved to vb.net to create COM add-ins, and the VSTO add-ins.
I found the following leaflets of various case studies, add-ins, products and services that we wrote in the early years, before I moved from vb.net to c#.
Some of these persist in my work today, in one form or another, but there is a series of custom Visio panels that I called TextWindow, ImageWindow, WebWindow and GridWindow but had to change their name when Microsoft informed me that “Window” is a trademarked word and I must remove it 🙂 I still like the idea of these custom panels, both for desktop and web editions of Visio …
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