No idea what’s wrong. I’ve asked Microsoft if they know what the problem is. I don’t know if I have the audio, and I certainly don’t want to host a 144MB file on my account!

I might be able to dig up the PowerPoint presentation, though…

The links are broken again. Could you somehow fix it? Or tell me where I can download the slides?

Thanks!

Have tried flipping/unflipping the whole drawing (page)?

This little sub might do the trick a bit faster for you.

Since those unrouted connectors are in the lower-left corner of your page, this code first draws a really long diagonal line from ( -pagewidth, -pageheight ) to ( 2 * pagewidth, 2* pageheight ) so that all objects on the page will be symmetrically encompassed by ’select all’. That way, when we do flip-x twice, the objects on the page won’t move.

At any rate, this should work faster than flipping each individual shape…

Sub FlipXmlPage()

‘// Get the page and the size of the page:
Dim pg As Visio.Page
Dim pw As Double, ph As Double

Set pg = Visio.ActivePage
pw = pg.PageSheet.Cells(“Width”).ResultIU
ph = pg.PageSheet.Cells(“Height”).ResultIU

‘// Draw a big diagonal line to make all objects
‘// on the page symmetrical:
Dim shpLine As Visio.Shape
Set shpLine = pg.DrawLine(-pw, -ph, 2 * pw, 2 * ph)

‘// Flip everything on the page
Dim sel As Visio.Selection
Set sel = Visio.ActivePage.CreateSelection(Visio.VisSelectionTypes.visSelTypeAll)
sel.Flip (Visio.VisFlipDirection.visFlipHorizontal)
sel.Flip (Visio.VisFlipDirection.visFlipHorizontal)

‘// Get rid of the line:
shpLine.Delete

End Sub

http://blogs.msdn.com/mailant/archive/2004/10/26/248369.aspx

It’s from 2004, so maybe they’ve changed something, but it recommends calling Layout on Open. Duh. Still not a solution, but maybe an answer…

I actually had this problem when I gave the presentation a few years ago, and still haven’t had the time to figure it out.

I’ll ask around, see if any of the other Visio Geeks have figured it out. Kind of kills the whole “server-side document generation” thing, doesn’t it?

I’m trying to create a XML-drawing and everything seems to work fine, only the connectors are not displayed until you move one or more shapes. This is the same problem that Chris Maloney encounters and I was wondering if you already know of a solution. I do not use automation (XML-code is created from within a SQL Server DTS-package).

Thanks,
Martin Thiele

I have built (and modified … converted to c#,etc) your sample code that uses a XML drawing and adds shapes and connectors to create a drawing using XML… very cool… only example of this I have seen anywhere… Thanks! I have the same issue you left in the example… Visio does not “layout” the connectors until I move a shape or use a “layout command”. Did you find a way to get Visio to layout the connectors when it opens the drawing?

thanks,
Chris M

No idea what went wrong, but it’s fixed now!