Archive for May, 2005

TIP: Visio Auto Layout from C#

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

I couldn’t find this anywhere on the web, and needed some help from Visio team to figure it out, so here it is. If you want to get your shapes to layout using left-to-right flowchart format, use the CellsU property on the pagesheet:
Document doc = app.Documents.Add(””);Page page = doc.Pages[1];page.PageSheet.get_CellsU(”PlaceStyle”).FormulaU = “2″;page.PageSheet.get_CellsU(”RouteStyle”).FormulaU = “6″;// code to […]

AJAX and Accessibility

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

At the recent friday cabal, while discussing AJAX and extensibility, I was struck by one of the more interesting implications of the rapid adoption of AJAX toolkits. Currently, everyone is building toolkits to help them buid richer client-side logic in DHTML and JavaScript and to communicate with HTTP web services. These toolkits will save developers […]