What's New in Microsoft Office Visio 2003 for Automation Developers [Visio 2003 SDK Documentation]

Microsoft Office Visio 2003 provides a powerful single platform for your custom drawing solutions. New Automation objects, properties, methods, and events give you more options for defining the behavior of the elements in your solutions.

New Automation features in Visio 2003

  • Microsoft Office Visio Drawing Control 2003
  • Macro recorder
  • Primary interop assemblies (PIAs) for programming Visio in managed code using the common language runtime (CLR) 1.1 (see MSDN, the Microsoft Developer Network Web site, for more information)
  • Smart tags
  • Support for publishing add-ons by using Microsoft Windows Installer

The following topics provide lists of Automation objects and members that are new in Visio 2003.

New objects

New methods (by object)

New methods (alphabetical list)

New properties (by object)

New properties (alphabetical list)

New events

New enumerations

For a list of new ShapeSheet features, see What's new in Microsoft Office Visio 2003 for ShapeSheet developers.

Visit the Visio Developer Center on MSDN, the Microsoft Developer Network Web site, for the latest information about developing with Visio, including product news, technical articles, downloads, samples, and the Visio SDK.