visio

I am working on my diploma work. The goal is to create addin in visio that should be able to load data from access and vizualize them. I am working in visual studio 2010. I have problem with one sub (the most important:D), which should take data from visio.datarecordset a draw them on active...

Is there is no way to access status bar of powerpoint and visio from vb.net? Thanks in advance, Regards