Book (or meaty FAQ) for learning Visio VBA?

[Mark Tangard]

Hi folks. Anyone have a recommendation for a resource (paper or online)
for someone trying learn Visio VBA.

I eat Word VBA for breakfast, but Visio's version -- I guess due to its
very different ancestry -- is proving quite a different beast, a puzzler
for even simple stuff. Is there a good primer somewhere?

If not (or in addition if you'd like, blink blink), could someone show
me some sample VBA code to do something like change the font size of the
text in every text-containing shape in a Visio doc? Or change the fill
color of every shape that's less than 1 inch wide? That sort of thing.

Any help or clues deeply appreciated.

 

[Al Edlund]

Mark,
In order of detail and completeness (especially working examples and tools).

The standard list starts with the Developing Visio Solutions which is over
on MSDN

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/devref/HTML/DVS_Copyright_1270.asp?frame=true

Then you can try David Edson's book and finally Graham Widemans latest
(v2003 developer survival guide), both available over on Amazon.

Al

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

So Al, is your copy of Graham's new book still prestine? Due to Tablet
problems, my copy was well read on the flight home. ;-)

John... Visio MVP

 

[Al Edlund]

It's been opened several times (carefully), so yup it's still pristine. My
tablets' working fine too, although the piece of junk that Toshiba sends as
a cdrom (a Targus) has been less than adequate.
Al

 

[Mark Tangard]

Al,

Thanks very much for the link and the book refs. Gotta get deeper into
this before I get mouse shoulder....

 

[Bruce Hensley]

I just saw this the other day ... not a book, but possibly helpful in going
from the Word to the Visio object model ...

Visio object model explorer:
http://www.wideman-one.com/gw/tech/Visio/gwvisexp/

Bruce

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

The owner of the site, Graham Wideman, is the author of the ultimate book(s)
on Visio development and has a companion site at
http://www.diagramantics.com/


John... Visio MVP

Need stencils or ideas? http://www.mvps.org/visio/3rdparty.htm
Need VBA examples? http://www.mvps.org/visio/VBA.htm
Common Visio Questions http://www.mvps.org/visio/common_questions.htm