Include MS Visio drawing into an empty window

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Angelo Bordonaro asked 2016-12-23 14:56:18 UTC

Hi All,

I need to include a Visio drawing into an empty window. Is it possible to do this?

In window forms (desktop applications) it's possible by using the VisioViewer ActiveX.

Thank you in advance

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Tiago (ITG) answered 2016-12-23 17:40:34 UTC

ActiveX is supported only by Internet Explorer (IE supports about all legacy stuff). I guess ActiveX isn't a good choice.

There are free plugins/addins for Chrome and Firefx by https://www.lucidchart.com/ They also have free online Visio Viewer solutions. I don't know how free they are but I guess that's the best bet.

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Luca answered 2016-12-23 19:29:10 UTC

In addition to Tiago's answer, Visio should be able to save to SVG or HTML. If you save to SVG you can assign the SVG file to a Wisej.Web.PictureBox controls.

If you still want to use the ActiveX viewer (IE only), add this to Web.config:

<system.webServer>
...
<staticContent>
  <mimeMap fileExtension=".vsdx" mimeType="application/vnd.visio" />
 </staticContent>
</system.webServer>

Needed to serve vsdx files.

Then in a Wisej.Web.HtmlPanel add this HTML:

<object classid="clsid:279D6C9A-652E-4833-BEFC-312CA8887857" width="500px" height="500px">
 <param name="BackColor" value="FFFFFFFF">
 <param name="AlertsEnabled" value="0">
 <param name="ContextMenuEnabled" value="1">
 <param name="GridVisible" value="1">
 <param name="HighQualityRender" value="1">
 <param name="PageColor" value="16777215">
 <param name="PageVisible" value="1">
 <param name="PropertyDialogEnabled" value="1">
 <param name="ScrollbarsVisible" value="0">
 <param name="ToolbarVisible" value="1">
 <param name="SRC" value="[Name of the vsdx file]">
 <param name="CurrentPageIndex" value="1">
 <param name="Zoom" value="-1">
</object>

The options are probably documented somewhere on MSDN. This is what I get in a Wisej sample app:

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Angelo Bordonaro answered 2017-01-11 15:59:15 UTC

Dear All,

the solution of a svg file isnt efficient since I need to allow navigation inside the visio document.

Moreover, each object of the document has decription information coming from an external database.

A solution that seems suits me is the following even if works with IE only:

I created an empty window. On this I putted inside an HTML panel associated with an html page with this code in the body:

This solution works well in case of little sized visio files. If i try to use a big visio file (i.e. 25 Mb) i cannot view it.

There is some correlation with the file size? Or, most probably, there is some important aspect i'm not considering?

Thank you again.

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Shalin answered 2017-10-17 06:08:00 UTC

You could also try Creately online diagramming and collaboration software that supports visio import. Its a free solution available in chrome store