Why does Visio use XP's Indexing Service?

[Brcobrem]

Hi,

I am not a regular Visio user, so I have a question that may be obvious to
you who are Visio gerus:

I see from the indexing service that "C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Visio11" is the indexed directory root. Under normal Visio use, what
kind of content is under this directory that someone would want to search
through?

I appreciate your assistance on this.

Regards,
Brcobrem

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi Brcobrem,

I'm not an OS expert, but I can say this: Visio ships with lots and lots of
stencils that go with it's templates. Stencils for flowcharts, orgcharts,
networks, architecture, software diagramming, etc.

In the past, there were performance problems getting the list of stencils
from the Visio directories and putting them into the various sub-menus. I
susepct that the indexing is used to help speed this up. It might also have
to do with the Shape Search function that helps you find any of the
thousands of shapes that live in those stencils.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

Free Visio shapes:
http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
Visio programming info:
http://www.visguy.com/category/programming/
Other Visio resources:
http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/

 

[Brcobrem]

Hi Chris,

Sorry for the delayed reply. That sounds reasonable to me. Thanks!

That would make sense too if Visio is one of those apps that is "application
aware" of the Indexing Service.

Regards,
Brcobrem