Storing objects with .vsd

[Axel101]

Hello,

I developed an addin (C#) which creates objects during the design-process -
for example I create an object for each shape which is created. Of course, I
loose all my objects after storing and reloading the visio file.

Is there maybe a possibility to store an object graph with the .vsd file and
retrieve it after a reload?

I thought of something easier than catching the save event and serialize the
object graph to an additional file. Maybe there is some built-in
functionality for this...

thanks,
Axel

 

[Paul Herber]

Hello,

I developed an addin (C#) which creates objects during the design-process -
for example I create an object for each shape which is created. Of course, I
loose all my objects after storing and reloading the visio file.

Is there maybe a possibility to store an object graph with the .vsd file and
retrieve it after a reload?

I thought of something easier than catching the save event and serialize the
object graph to an additional file. Maybe there is some built-in
functionality for this...

How about having an extra, invisible page in the document, the page
could store embedded objects and you could use varoius page fields to
store information.

 

[Axel101]

Thanks for the reply. What do you exactly mean with embedded objects and how
to use them as a placeholder for my objects?

 

[David Parker]

Consider serializing and adding as SolutionXML... see the SDK

 

[Axel101]

Thanks for your reply too. I thought of this as well, but XMLSerializer isn't
able to handle some things I use, such as hashtables...So I would have to
write additional code to handle these things or serialize to a binary format
and store this in the SolutionXML. Is this the common way?