John Goldsmith's visLog

Visio VML and IE10

The introduction of Internet Explorer 10 has an impact on Visio’s Save As Web output when you specify VML as the primary output format.  In this post, I’m going to look at what’s changed and how you can work around the problem.

No mouseover with visEquivTitle

A current project extending Visio’s Save As Web functionality threw up an interesting problem today.  If you’re using the User.visEquivTitle solution to provide an alternative tooltip then you need to make sure that the cell’s value is a string with a length greater than zero…

Automating Visio’s Save As Web output

A newsgroup question came up a little while ago about how to automate Visio’s Save As Web function and as this is an area that I’m quite keen on, I thought I’d write a quick post about it.  I’m really just going to cover what’s available in the help files but hopefully it will prove useful just reading from a different perspective.

As I mentioned, all of the documentation is available from the MSDN library, with the additional code samples found in the downloadable Visio 2007 SDK (a 2010 SDK will be available as the Visio gets its official launch in May)…

Embedding PDF and XPS files in Visio Save As Web output

There was a recent question in the newsgroups asking how you could print the correct drawing frame in Visio’s Save As Web output.  David Parker suggested including a PDF file in the process and creating a link to it, so I thought I’d look at one way of achieving this.

Visio 2010 – Save As Silverlight

Continuing my review of some of the new features in Visio 2010, today I’m going to look at some exciting functionality that enables you to save your diagrams out to Silverlight…

Extending Visio’s Save As Web zoom functionality

This post is in response to a newsgroup question about how to extend Visio’s Save As Web zoom limits and also, how to set a custom default zoom level as each page loads…

Save As Web URL Parameters

Ok, hands up – I’ve only recently realised that the URL parameters functionality in Visio Save As Web output work on straight .html pages and not just server based platforms such as ASP.NET. 

I’d tried this some time ago on a local machine (using the file:// URL schema) and had assumed, incorrectly, that as URL parameters weren’t recognised that this would be the same when hosted (via http://).  This is not the case and so I thought I’d try and set the record straight by reviewing how to use this handy part of the Save As Web addon…

Save As Web and IE8

I came across an issue recently with Visio’s Save As Web output and IE8.  Basically a JavaScript function, which had worked quite happily in IE6 and 7, now throws an error as the main page loads.

I believe this issue will be addressed in the next Office 2007 SP2, coming soon, but until then and for any legacy sites there’s a fairly quick fix…

Visio and Bing (Virtual Earth)

I've recently been involved in a WPF based project that utilises Microsoft Virtual Earth and I thought it would make an interesting exercise to combine this with Visio's Save As Web output.

I've uploaded a live demo over here that shows how clicking a shape, containing a latitude and longitude string, can update a Virtual Earth map embedded in the toolbar panel on the left hand side.

I'm not going to go into lots of detail about how to use Virtual Earth as the main purpose of this post is to demonstrate how to connect it to Visio web output, but if you want to find out more then here are a few links to get you going:

• Live Services - Microsoft Virtual Earth
• Virtual Earth Interactive SDK
• MSDN - Virtual Earth Map Control SDK 6.2

Changing the 'Save as Web' tooltip

A recent question in the newsgroups has set me looking at the way in which Visio's Save as Web addon handles hyperlink tooltips.

The original poster pointed out that in the 2002 version a hyperlink's description text was displayed as the user 'moused-over' a given shape, but that in 2003 and 2007 version the tooltip displays a standard message ('Click to follow hyperlink.') irrespective of the underlying link...