Opening Visio Docs in Visio Viewer with Visio Installed (Again!)

[sbmack7]

Chronic problem. Want to use Visio Viewer to test view Visio docs.

I tried the two solutions from this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...dc241?lnk=gst&q=visio+viewer#8fc96823d5edc241

Dave Parker's code opens the viewer in the browser but I get the
"Cannot load specified URL or file" message. So the viewer is
present, but not the document.

I tried the registry update trick using this batch file I got of the
net:

@echo off
reg delete "hkcr\.vdx" /f
reg delete "hkcr\.vsd" /f
reg delete "hkcr\.vss" /f
reg delete "hkcr\.vst" /f
reg delete "hkcr\.vsx" /f
reg delete "hkcr\.vtx" /f
regedit /s C:\Visioreg.reg

Visioreg.reg is this:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vsd]
"Content Type"="application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer"
@="VisioViewer.Viewer"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vst]
"Content Type"="application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer"
@="VisioViewer.Viewer"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vdx]
"Content Type"="application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer"
@="VisioViewer.Viewer"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vss]
"Content Type"="application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer"
@="VisioViewer.Viewer"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vst]
"Content Type"="application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer"
@="VisioViewer.Viewer"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vsx]
"Content Type"="application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer"
@="VisioViewer.Viewer"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vtx]
"Content Type"="application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer"
@="VisioViewer.Viewer"

That doesn't work at all. When I drag a .vsd file into Explorer, it
still launches Visio. When I open Dave's html file it still only
opens the viewer without the Visio document.

Does anybody have any other ideas on how to solve this problem?

Thanks,

SteveM

 

[David Parker]

Are you sure that you changed the SRC property value to a valid file name?
It works for me.