Visio Developer Portal

Welcome to the Microsoft Office Visio developers' home on MSDN. Visio provides a powerful single platform for your custom visual solutions. In this section, you will find information about how to create custom Visio applications by using the Visio Drawing Control, XML, the .NET Framework, COM add-ins, new code samples, improved data connectivity and graphic display of data, and integration with other Office programs.

	Visio 2007 Software Development Kit Find conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references (Automation, Save as Web Page, ShapeSheet, and XML) to guide you in developing solutions based on Visio. View the SDK online or download it.
	Publishing Visio 2007 Solutions Learn about publishing content to Visio 2007 by using a Microsoft Windows Installer (.msi) file and the Visio Solution Publishing Tool.

Featured Blog Visio Insights is a dialogue with Visio users and developers to discuss best practices and explain how Visio really works. This blog is authored by the Visio Product Team at Microsoft. Using Visio 2007 Professional's data connectivity features with timelines Visio 2007 provides data connectivity support for a number of data sources such as Excel, SQL and SharePoint Lists.  One interesting scenario is... more Visio Conference 2008 videos posted For anyone who wasn't able to attend the Visio Conference 2008 this February or has been itching to show everyone else the cool things coming in Visio... more Extra drawings opening on Visio launch This situation has come up frequently enough in the newsgroups that the solution should be widely circulated: When Visio crashes, it will often r... more Shape Conversion in Process Engineering   A recent newsgroup post asks for an explanation of the cells that get added to a shape when it is converted using the Process Engineering add... more More... Bill Morein, Program Manager II Visio and Data Visualization Chris Castillo, ISV - App Dev Consultant Visio Solution Development

Visualize, explore, and communicate complex information, systems, and processes. Get started with Visio. Download a free trial Take an online test drive Visio 2007 system requirements Top Articles Integrate Visio 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integrate Visio 2007 and SharePoint Products and Technologies Integrate Visio 2007 and Excel 2007 Top Downloads Visio 2007 SDK 2007 Office System: XML Schema Reference Developer Roadmap for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Top Videos and Webcasts BI201—Visio 2007: New Data Visualization Capabilities and Solutions PT214—Business Process Management Accelerator for the Microsoft Office System Programming the Visio Graphical Surface (Level 300)