Have a look at the Visio 2007 Viewer Developer Reference.Īccording to Visio Insights, who broke the story first, the Visio 2007 viewer API enables you to do the following with the control: In fact, Microsoft recently released a developer reference to help you to do this with less guesswork. You can plop it on a form and manipulate it programmatically. The viewer can also be used as a control in your own solutions. If you find any more good reference to viewer topics, please leave them in the comments section below! What’s the Developer Angle? If you or your customers don’t have the Visio viewer, then your first stop is one of these: With the viewer, they can pan and zoom, switch pages, view Shape Data (Custom Properties), turn layers on and off, and view or hide annotations. If they have Outlook 2007, then they may already have the viewer installed, because Outlook 2007 installs the Visio 2007 viewer by default.

If your co-workers and customers don’t have Visio installed, they can install the viewer, then view and interact with Visio drawings that you send them in a browser or in Outlook. The Visio viewer is freely available from Microsoft. The Visio viewer is a free download that lets non-Visio-havers view and interact with Visio files.īut did you know that you can incorporate it into your own software projects as a control? Ok, sorry about that Little River Band diversion. Have you heard about the Visio viewer, he’s a viewer but he still keeps on spyin’.

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