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Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

By : John Marshall
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Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

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By: John Marshall

Overview of this book

Microsoft Visio Professional is a data visualization application that is used by many different market sectors and many different departments to represent information visually, from network infrastructure to organization charts, from process diagrams to office layouts. Starting off with a brief introduction to Visio Professional 2016 and then moving on to data storage, linking data to shapes, and working with SQL Server to create a solid foundation. Then we’ll cover topics such as refreshing data, working with geographical data, working with various graphics, and diagrams, and more. Finally, you’ll find out how to deploy custom stencils, templates, and code.
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Selecting a Master shape to drop


A Master object must be obtained before it can be dropped onto a page using code. Simply knowing the name of a desired Master is not enough because the Master may not exist in the Document Stencil yet. Also, there may be more than one Master with the same name on any opened stencil, so the stencil name may also be required. In fact, the active Document may have a number of docked stencils, so they should be checked first. Then, the Visio Application may have a number of different stencil documents open. Lastly, the stencil may not even be open in Visio, so the stencil may need to be opened, but that is left for the accompanying code for this book.

The caption that appears on the header bar of a stencil is either the mapped long name or title of the stencil, if there is one, otherwise it displays the name without the file extension. All the built-in stencils have terse filenames that are mapped to longer names that are displayed in the UI. These mappings are...

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