Visio 2010 Release to Manufacturing

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First published on MSDN on Apr, 16 2010

Today Microsoft announced that Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 have released to manufacturing! As noted last month , Visio 2010 and the rest of the other Office 2010 products will be available to businesses worldwide on May 12 ^th and to consumers online and on retail shelves this June . Many thanks to everyone who provided product feedback on our blog and through our Send a Smile tool in our Visio 2010 Beta. Your feedback has helped us ensure a high quality product as well as provided us feature input for future consideration. We hope to continue hearing from you after you install our final release.

Over the last nine months, we have had an opportunity to cover the features of Visio 2010 over nearly 60 postings with information for users, shapes developers, IT professionals and developers. If you have recently started reading our blog or if you just want an easy reference to what we’ve already covered, below is a summary of the articles we’ve posted to date, organized by our main areas of investment for this release .

Ease of Use	Process Management	Visio Services
Office Fluent User Interface The Getting Started Experience The Office Fluent UI Visio Application Enhancements The New Shapes Window Live Rendering Shapes Improvements to multi-page document support Visual Updates to Shapes Diagramming Improvements Themes and Live Preview Applying a Background or Border Design AutoConnect Automatic Page Sizing Data Graphics Data Graphics Legends The Improved Dynamic Grid Better with Windows 7 Wireframe Shapes Improved CAD Support Technical Reference The Developer tab The Connectivity API Visio 2010 Beta SDK ShapeSheet Formula AutoComplete & Other Improvements New ShapeSheet Cells and Functions User Interface Extensibility New API for Configuring Raster Export	Flowcharting Layout Improvements Improved Flowchart Routing Inserting and Deleting Shapes Structured Diagrams Organizing Diagrams with Containers Details on Container Behaviors Cross-functional Flowcharts Diagram Validation Annotating Diagrams with Callouts Video: Process Diagrams Subprocesses and Hyperlinks BPMN support SharePoint Server 2010 Integration Using a Visio Process Repository SharePoint Workflow Authoring (Part 1) SharePoint Workflow Authoring (Part 2) Technical Reference Creating custom validation rules The Diagram Validation API Custom Containers, Lists and Callouts The Point Along Path Shape Sheet Functions Container, List and Callout API	Diagram Publishing, Rendering and Data Refresh Announcing SharePoint 2010 and Visio Services Introducing Visio Services Publishing Diagrams to Visio Services Embedding a Web Drawing in a SharePoint Page No Code Mashups with Visio Services and Web Part Connections Technical Reference Installing and Configuring Visio Services The Visio Services JavaScript Mashup API Visio Services: Details for Administrators

As always, please continue to let us know what you think or want to hear more about.