What's New in Microsoft Office Visio 2007 for ShapeSheet Developers

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 provides a powerful single platform for your custom drawing solutions. New ShapeSheet cells and functions, along with new Automation objects, properties, methods, and events, give you more options for defining the behavior of the elements in your solutions.

New features for ShapeSheet developers in Visio 2007

  • Enhanced ShapeSheet spreadsheet   See below for lists of new cells.
  • New functions   See below for a list of new functions you can use in your formulas.

The following topics provide lists of ShapeSheet elements that are new in Visio .

New cells (by section)

Section New cell

Character

RTLText

Character

UseVertical

Events

EventMultiDrop

Protection

LockFromGroupFormat

Protection

LockThemeColors

Protection

LockThemeEffects

ShapeLayout

ShapePlaceStyle

New cells (alphabetical list)

New cell Section

EventMultiDrop

Events

LockFromGroupFormat

Protection

LockThemeColors

Protection

LockThemeEffects

Protection

RTLText

Character

ShapePlaceStyle

ShapeLayout

UseVertical

Character

New functions (alphabetical list)

New function

ARG

BLEND

CELLISTHEMED

EVALCELL

HUE

LUMDIFF

SATDIFF

SHADE

THEME

THEMEGUARD

THEMERESTORE

TINT

TONE

For a list of new Automation objects, properties, methods, events, and interfaces, see the Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Automation Reference.

For the latest information about developing with Visio, including product news, technical articles, downloads, samples, and the Visio SDK, see the MSDN Visio Developer Center.