Visio Format SDK for Server Environment?

[Riko77]

Hello,

I would like to set up an event handler such that whenever a Visio diagram
is saved to SharePoint site, that an event handler would open the file and
examine/extract the Shape Data to validate changes according to our business
rules relevant to that site context.

I'm assuming Visio automation has the same limitations / issues as other
Office Applications with respect to non-interactive use in a server
environment.

There is the Open XML Format SDK for Word / Excel/ Powerpoint. Is there an
analog of this for Visio?

Can anyone suggest a way this can be achieved?

Your input is greatly appreciated.

 

[AlEdlund]

There is an xml format document for visio. The document would have to be
saved in .vdx format. Without understanding what your users may be saving,
the caveat is that many very popular tools save data inside the document in
a form that is unavailable for examination.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...52-3547-420a-a412-00a2662442d9&DisplayLang=en
al

 

[Riko77]

Hi Al,

Thanks for your response. Luck for us, in our scenario the document
authors are required to use only Shapes from a pre-defined library, we manage
to avoid that issue entirely.

Here's the link for Office 2007:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...80-f2c0-4b80-9ad1-2cb0c300aef9&DisplayLang=en

Cheers.