Chapter 17. Getting Data from Visio Drawings

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • Types of Visio Data

  • Iterating Through an Object Collection

  • Getting a Page Through Automation

  • Getting Layer Information from Pages and SmartShapes Symbols

  • Getting Object Type Information

  • Getting Cells and Querying Cells in Visio ShapeSheets

  • Iterating Through Sections and Rows in Visio ShapeSheets

  • Getting a Selection Object

  • Getting Window Information in Visio

  • Getting Information About Connections Between SmartShapes Symbols

  • Globally Unique Identifiers

Visio diagrams are much more than “clip art” or pictures. As we have seen, they are rich repositories of data. That data may be from external sources, or held within the SmartShape symbols themselves. In this chapter, we will look at how data can ...

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