How to create file system and folders structure in Visio 2010?

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_{Sunday, March 4, 2012 4:12 PM}

I am newbie to Visio 2010 and was wondering is there any way to create hierarchical diagram of directory tree? This folder tree might also include files and it doesn't need to actually exist in reality on my local hard drive, I'd just like to create it from within Visio 2010 by using Organizational Chart template for example.

I am .NET developer and I just want to create presentation of the folder structure of my Visual Studio project which is pretty large. There is source code folder, output folder, resources folder, 3rd party libs folder etc... each with containing some files. So, some visualization and diagrams would be very useful when explaining the project structure to my coworkers. I was searching and googling for Visio templates for this purpose but unfortunately didn't find any. 

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_{Sunday, March 4, 2012 9:59 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Treeview's are common examples of illustrating hierarchial drawings. Visio handles these as basically 'layout and routing' types of drawings. The orgchart wizard is the most familiar one inside of visio. The orgchart wizard takes a simple table that lists parent/child relationships (reports_to) and automates the drawing of them. Chris Roth (www.visguy.com) has several articles on these types of drawings. You might check this out also.

http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=585.msg2490#msg2490

al

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