Going beyond the object model
Some programmers think that Visio is present just to provide a graphical canvas with the symbols and lines that they need to manipulate or interrogate. Perhaps they have been used to draw items in Windows Forms applications or even XAML-based development with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), Silverlight, or Windows 8 applications. To think like this is to misunderstand Visio, because it has a rich-diagramming engine, coupled with the ability to encapsulate data and custom behaviors in every element, not to mention the inheritance between certain types of objects. This has resulted in a fairly complex structure in parts of the object model, so that all of the desired functionality can be described fully.
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