Microsoft Office Visio is a dominant application for developing sophisticated models. A model is an abstract representation of a system that specifies the modeled system from a firm viewpoint and at a certain level of abstraction. Microsoft Office Visio is the finest design tool for creating shapes, construction diagrams, flow diagrams, database design diagrams, and other design diagrams.
Let's consider a scenario. Zack wants to say hello to all the Visio 2007 users in the office, and Zack is interested in doing this by using VSTO and Visual Studio 2008. The following example demonstrates how Zack implemented this using VSTO programming.
Let's see how to create the solution for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 using Visual Studio 2008, and write Hello World program as your first programming using VSTO 3.0 for Microsoft Visio 2007.
1. Open Visual Studio 2008 to create a new Visio 2007 Add-in template project.
2. Select New Project. Under Office select 2007, and then select...