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Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation

By : David Parker
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Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation

By: David Parker

Overview of this book

Microsoft Visio is a diagramming program using vector graphics, which ultimately allows business professionals to explore and communicate complex information more effectively. Through various visual representations, Visio enables complicated data to be presented in a clear, communicative, and data-connected way. Therefore, productivity is increased by utilizing the wide variety of diagrams that can convey information at a glance, as data can be understood and acted upon quickly. This book enables business developers to unleash the full potential of Diagram Validation that Visio 2010 Premium Edition has to offer.This focused tutorial will enable you to get to grips with Diagram Validation in Visio 2010 Premium Edition to the fullest extent, enabling powerful automatic diagram verification based on custom logic and assuring correct and compliant diagrams. You will learn how to create and publish Rules, and use the ShapeSheet to write formulae. There is a special focus on extending and enhancing the capabilities of Visio 2010 diagram validation, and on features that are not found in the out-of-the-box product, like installing and using a new Rules Tools add-in, complete with source code, reviewing the new diagramming rules in flowchart and BPMN templates, and creating your own enhanced Data Flow Model Diagram template, complete with Validation Rules.The book begins by covering the basic functions of Visio 2010, and then dives deep into showing you how to formulate your own Validation Rules and understand the Visio Object Model. ShapeSheet functions are explored in detail, as are creating Validation Rule Sets and Rules, and visualizing issues, with practical demonstrations along the way. Other content includes building a Rules Tools add-in using C#, creating test and filter expressions, and publishing Validation Rules for others to use. Finally, the book considers the creation and implementation of a new RuleSet for Data Flow Model Diagrams with a worked example.By following the practical and immediately deployable examples found in the book, you will successfully learn both how to use the features of Microsoft Visio 2010, and how to extend the functionality provided in the box.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

The Visio Type libraries


The publicly displayed version number of an application like Visio can be quite different from the internal version number that is revealed to programmers. For example, Microsoft Visio 2010 is the public version number for the internal version number 14. Therefore, programmers need to know that the Visio Type Library version is 14, although their users will know it as Visio 2010.

Note

There were no 13 versions prior to 14 because Visio was at version 6 (externally Visio 2000) when Microsoft bought the company in 1999. At that time, Microsoft Office was internally at version 9, so Microsoft Visio 2002 was internally hiked up to version 10 to be at the same version number as Microsoft Office 2002. At this point, Microsoft Visio 2003 was internally version number 11, and Microsoft Visio 2007 was internally 12. Version 13 went the same way as the thirteenth floors in high-rise buildings in the States—pandering to the superstitions of the masses.

Microsoft Visio 2010 may...