Programming tutorial

[simbalsyd]

Hi

I would like to create Visio documents (add some lines, circles and
rectangles) programmatically from VB6 and I am looking for a simple
tutorial.

Any ideas where I can find a useful tutorial?


Thanks
Anders Sneckenborg

 

[Al Edlund]

both John Marshall (visio.mvps.org) and Chris Roth (www.visguy.com) have
pointers on their sites to some recommended readings.
you can also do the on-line version of Developing Visio Solutions at

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

al

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi Anders,

Like Al said, there's an article on my site. It's here:

http://www.visguy.com/2006/09/13/create-visio-flowcharts-programmatically/

It uses VBA code, which is the same as VB6. If you need to programmatically
create shapes from scratch, you'll also want to note two automation
functions:

- DrawRectangle
- DrawOval

You can find out more about them in the Developer's Help, but I just wanted
to point them out to you.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

More Visio shapes, articles, development info and pure diagramming fun at:
www.visguy.com