Visio based application using c# without having Visio installed

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Hello!
Does anyone know a way to programmatically draw in Visio document without Microsoft Visio soft installed on the machine?

The idea might be to generate an xml file visio compliant.

Any example will be really appreciated!
Thanks

Posted 26-Jun-14 2:56am

orélle

Updated 26-Jun-14 22:10pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Jun-14 14:33pm

Frankly, whole Visio does not deserve addressing such problems... :-)
—SA

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Sprint89 · Answer 1 · 2014-06-26T23:24:00

Solution 2

You may be stuck with the limitations of the Visio licence. Could you use another diagramming tool such as Apache OpenOffice Draw?

Posted 26-Jun-14 23:24pm

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orélle 27-Jun-14 9:30am

That looks interesting however using Visio is a requirement in my case. My users are used to and they prefer Visio.
Visio licence is not an issue, in fact i access visio trough a virtualized application. Programmatically, i don't know how to access visio on the virtualized application installed on my computer. That's why, i wanna program visio without having its installed then i will be able to open generated visio files trough the virtualized application

hypermellow · Answer 2 · 2014-06-26T03:09:00

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It might not be exactly what you are looking for, but the following article should get you started.

Creating VISIO Organigrams using C#

Hope it helps.

Posted 26-Jun-14 3:09am

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orélle 26-Jun-14 9:18am

Thank for your suggestion, but this needs Microsoft Office Visio to be installed on the machine where the c# code is running!
I need to do the same but without Microsoft Visio installed on the server running my code.

hypermellow 26-Jun-14 10:16am

It does?
I thought using the referenced Interop assemblies (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Visio.Application()) removed the need for the program to be installed.

orélle 26-Jun-14 10:20am

Have you try to run the code using that reference without Visio Soft installed? If not try, an exception will raise telling roughfully that you need to install visio.
Thanks

hypermellow 26-Jun-14 10:41am

Yup, your correct ... the projects in the linked article build successfully (once you have the visio sdk installed and interops referenced), but throws an exception when you try to run it.
Apologies for the duff steer!

orélle 16-Sep-14 10:01am

In my case i have Visio installed on App-v and running on my local machine.
Any idea on how to get the running instance of Visio in my c# code running on my local machine.
On my local machine i see in the list of process visio.exe.

Sankari Anil 15-Nov-16 0:33am

Hey, Did u get a solution for this?
Even I want to programmatically create Visio diagrams without having MS Visio installed in my machine.