Visio 2003 Pro PIA

[Dave Taylor]

Help!

I just upgraded to Visio Pro 2003 specifically to use the .NET Primary
Interop Assembly and the ActiveX control. I installed it, but cannot find
the PIA dll file. Where does this get installed? It doesnt show up in my
list of available references in Visual Studio and there are entirely too
many DLL files in the Visio program directories for me to "guess" which one
is it. I called MS technical support and they were of absolutely no use
(MAJOR communication problems as the tech support guy BARELY speaks English,
it only took about 20 minutes of explanation that no, I wasnt trying to use
the VBA editor, and that yes, the PIA is indeed supposed to be included with
Visio 2003 Pro...grrr!). In the Visio online help it says "See MSDN for
more information"...Ok, so I go to MSDN and type in "Visio PIA"...and get 8
hits...mostly relating to Visio 2002 PIA (which of course didnt work with
SR-1).
Thanks


Dave Taylor

 

[Nat]

It should be in the CD. Try to reinstall it again and select Custom....and
find PIA stuff.

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Dave,
If its like the other Office 2003 PIAs, the PIA itself is an optional
install under the Visio setup program, you need to explicit select to
install it.

Once it is installed, to use it you simple select Microsoft Visio under the
COM objects in the Add Reference dialog. VS.NET sees that the PIA is
installed and is able to use the PIA instead of generating an interop...

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[Dave Taylor]

Jay...
Thanks, that did help!
I was expecting the PIA to be an assembly (hence looking under dotnet stuff
rather than COM)...but sure enough it was in COM and picked it up quite
easily from there.

Thanks again

Dave

 

[Mai-lan]

Just an additional note on PIAs: The PIAs won't install unless you have the
CLR 1.1 installed on your machine. This is the version of the CLR in Visual
Studio.NET 2003 and can also be downloaded off www.microsoft.com. Also --
the PIAs are installed on both Visio Standard and Visio Professional. The
PIAs are only available through the Visio product setup in this release and
in future releases, and will not be provided in the SDK.

Thanks,
Mai-lan