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Microsoft Visio (/ˈvɪz.i.oʊ/ VIZ-ee-oh) (formerly Microsoft Office Visio) is a diagramming and vector graphics application and is part of the Microsoft 365 family. The product was first introduced in 1992 by former American software company Visio Corporation, and its latest version is Visio 2021. Microsoft acquired the assets of Visio Corporation in 2000. A lightweight version of Visio is now included with all commercial SKU of Microsoft 365 and is known as Visio in Microsoft 365. It has two other subscription based SKUs. Visio Plan 1 includes the Visio web app whereas Visio Plan 2 provides access to both the web app and the Desktop application.
Microsoft Visio is used to create diagram types such as flowcharts, org charts, floor plans, network diagrams, UML diagrams, mind maps and more. It is also commonly used for scenarios such as Process Mapping and Visual Collaboration. The latest version of Visio also has data visualization that allows users to create diagrams from Excel data and also embed Visio diagrams in Power BI dashboards.
Microsoft made Visio 2013 for Windows available in two editions: Standard and Professional. The Standard and Professional editions share the same interface, but the Professional edition has additional templates for more advanced diagrams and layouts, as well as capabilities intended to make it easy for users to connect their diagrams to data sources and to display their data graphically.[5][6] The Professional edition features three additional diagram types, as well as intelligent rules, validation, and subprocess (diagram breakdown).[7] Visio Professional is also offered as an additional component of an Office365 subscription.[8]
On 22 September 2015, Visio 2016 was released alongside Microsoft Office 2016. A few new features have been added such as one-step connectivity with Excel data, information rights management (IRM) protection for Visio files, modernized shapes for office layout, detailed shapes for site plans, updated shapes for floor plans, modern shapes for home plans, IEEE compliant shapes for electrical diagrams, new range of starter diagrams, and new themes for the Visio interface.[9]
All of the previous versions of Visio used VSD, the proprietary binary-file format. Visio 2010 added support for the VDX file format, which is a well-documented XML Schema-based ("DatadiagramML") format, but still uses VSD by default only.
Visio 2013 drops support for writing VDX files in favor of the new VSDX and VSDM file formats,[12] and uses them by default. Created based on Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) standard (ISO 29500, Part 2), a VSDX or VSDM file consists of a group of XML files archived inside a Zip file.[12] VSDX and VSDM files differ only in that VSDM files may contain macros.[12] Since these files are susceptible to macro virus infection, the program enforces strict security on them.[14]
While VSD files use LZW-like lossless compression, VDX is not compressed. Hence, a VDX file typically takes up 3 to 5 times more storage.[citation needed] VSDX and VSDM files use the same compression as Zip files.
Visio began as a standalone product produced by Shapeware Corporation; version 1.0 shipped in 1992. A pre-release, Version 0.92, was distributed free on a floppy disk along with a Microsoft Windows systems readiness evaluation utility. In 1995, Shapeware Corporation changed their name to Visio Corporation to take advantage of market recognition and related product equity. Microsoft acquired Visio in 2000, re-branding it as a Microsoft Office application. Like Microsoft Project, however, it has never been officially included in any of the bundled Office suites. Microsoft included a Visio for Enterprise Architects edition with some editions of Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005.[15]
Along with Microsoft Visio 2002 Professional, Microsoft introduced Visio Enterprise Network Tools and Visio Network Center. Visio Enterprise Network Tools was an add-on product that enabled automated network and directory services diagramming. Visio Network Center was a subscription-based website where users could locate the latest network documentation content and exact-replica network equipment shapes from 500 leading manufacturers.[16] Visio Enterprise Network Tools was discontinued in July 2002.[17] The following year, Microsoft released a patch which gave Enterprise Network Tools users access to the network equipment shapes via Visio's built-in Find Shape feature.[18] Visio 2007 was released on November 30, 2006.
Microsoft Visio adopted ribbons in its user interface in Visio 2010.[19] Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook (to some extents) had already adopted the ribbon with the release of Microsoft Office 2007.[20]
There are no Visio versions 7, 8, or 9, because after Microsoft acquired and branded Visio as a Microsoft Office product, the Visio version numbers followed the Office version numbers. Version 13 was skipped owing to triskaidekaphobia.[22]
On 7 May 2001, Microsoft introduced Visio Enterprise Network Tools (VENT), an add-on for Visio 2002 scheduled for release on 1 July 2001, and Visio Network Center, a subscription-based web service for IT professionals who use Microsoft Visio for computer network diagramming.[23] VENT was discontinued on 1 July 2002 because of very low customer demand.[24]
One of the ways would be to look in the windows registry to see if visio exists under Office node(HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office...) If exists, it indicates 32 bit version of Visio. If HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office... lookup returns value, then it possibly indicates 64 bit version of visio installation. Hope this helps.
I'm not sure how fullproof this is though, since Visio could have been installed in a different folder other the Program Files. In that case, you can still search for the EXE file and then try to analyse the EXE itself.
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[12-21-2016 08:25:19.465] [Pre-Uninstallation] [Get-InstalledApplication] :: Found installed application [Microsoft Project Professional 2013] version [15.0.4569.1506] using exact name matching for search term [Microsoft Project Professional 2013].
[12-21-2016 08:25:19.490] [Pre-Uninstallation] [Get-InstalledApplication] :: Found installed application [Microsoft Project Professional 2013] version [15.0.4569.1506] using exact name matching for search term [Microsoft Project Professional 2013].
[12-21-2016 08:25:19.549] [Post-Uninstallation] [Exit-Script] :: Microsoft Project Uninstall Uninstallation completed with exit code [0].
[12-21-2016 08:25:19.553] [Post-Uninstallation] [Exit-Script] :: ------------------------------------------------------------------
[12-21-2016 12:47:20.126] [Pre-Uninstallation] [Get-InstalledApplication] :: Found installed application [Microsoft Project Profess
ional 2013] version [15.0.4569.1506] using exact name matching for search term [Microsoft Project Professional 2013].
[12-21-2016 12:47:20.141] [Pre-Uninstallation] [Get-InstalledApplication] :: Found installed application [Microsoft Project Profess
ional 2013] version [15.0.4569.1506] using exact name matching for search term [Microsoft Project Professional 2013].
I work with several clients who use only Visio (Microsoft users) and I have to import and export to Visio. With version 6, connector lines do not import or export correctly. When exported, the lines are no longer connected to boxes in the drawings. The older version of OG (version5) works better on these conversations. The newer version also crashes on many Visio diagrams (working with Visio 2010).
Are there ways to improve this compatibility?
I am reviving this topic which is over 1000 days old because I have recently submitted some VERY simple OmniGraffle files and their exported Visio files to Omni Support. The Visio files were not converted correctly. In one example, lines connecting blocks in a block diagram were re-rerouted incorrectly. There can be other problems (e.g., rotated or flipped objects).
With the support peeps I got the vdx open to work but then found out the file is missing all the text just like in the file opened using v5.4.4. :-( I suppose I could have rewritten all the text in the time I waited for support to reply.
One caveat. The one nasty bug that V4 has, that might be annoying is this. When V4 was written, Retina screens did not exist. On a retina screen, the shadows of shadowed objects are stuffed. Depending on the ShadowColour, you can or cannot see them, if they are visible, they are the wrong colour (horridly wrong). But the colour printed or exported is the actual set colour.
I had issues with Apple along exactly the same lines as with OG (a fish rots from the head down, and the head is Tim Cook, flowing down to constantly changing libraries, etc, and dictates to spp suppliers such as OG. It took a month to resolve, trying many major an minor releases, and eventually I settled on MAC OSX 10.10.5 Yosemite on a brand new 2017 Retina MacBook Pro machine.
OmniGraffle will work with Visio, to some degree. For work we use Visio, but I start nearly all of what I contribute in OmniGraffle and then save out to PDF and Visio to work on from my work Windows machine (most often I just keep iterating it in OG and just keep updating the Visio version).
In a document library I created, I get different results when open a Visio document using the Open In Visio/Visio Online menu. Visio Online is displaying an older file (not even in version history), while viewing Visio or downloading and opening in Visio display the correct file. I use a flow to copy with replace. Using the exact same flow, I tried an Excel file but there was no problem there.
We are not seeing Visio Standard 17.0 (2019) in our All Application listing after the ARL update above. Is this going to be re-added in the near future? We do see Visio 16.0 standard and professional.
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