What's new in Microsoft Visio 2002 for developers
Microsoft Visio 2002 provides a powerful single platform for your custom drawing solutions. New ShapeSheet cells and Automation objects, properties, methods, and events give you more options for defining the behavior of the elements in your solutions.
New features in Visio 2002- Native XML file format
- Improved scalability
- Enhanced ShapeSheet spreadsheet
- Access to the command bar object model shared by all Microsoft Office applications
- GDI+, which allows better graphic rendering and handling of file formats
- Document- and cell-level SolutionXML data storage
- COM (Component Object Model) add-ins
- Digital signatures
- Improved in-place behavior
- Ability for solutions to intercept Microsoft Windows keystroke messages
- Object model changes that support new and improved Visio features
- Enhanced glue control
- Ability to host add-ons inside of Visio windows
- Event filters
- Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications version 6.3
The following topics provide lists of ShapeSheet and Automation elements that are new in Visio 2002.