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Visio 2003 Developer's Survival Pack Tools and Samples |
Chapter 32: Document Preview (VB) | |
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Folder | Description |
DocPreview.exe | Program which can display the preview picture of a Visio document. |
PreviewPicTest.vsd | Sample Visio document with a nice preview picture |
Other DocPreview.* | VB6 source code for this application. |
For general comments on installation of VB6 applications see here: VBNotes.htm.
This particular application has the following requirements:
Requirement | Description |
VisShe.dll | A dll supplied with Visio that provides a service to other apps for reading the preview picture from a Visio document. This dll is installed with Visio, and is needed both at design time and runtime. Effectively this means that the Visio preview picture can only be viewed if Visio is installed. |
Type library for interfaces: IPersistFile, IExtractImage
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One way to fulfill this requirement is to obtain the "OLE
Automation" (stdole.tlb) type library created by Eduardo Morcillo, and
available here: Edanmo's VB Page
> Type Libraries. To install, use command: |
C# version of this sample.
Article Created: 2003-09-01 Last edit: Last edit:
03-10-14 Graham
Wideman
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