A number of my Visio 2016 diagrams appear corrupt after a recent Windows 10 and/or Office update. It seems to particularly affect the Azure icons. Any suggestions?
Here's a snippet from one of my corrupt diagrams:
This is how the diagram should look:
I can edit the text with no issues. The word before "Data Warehouse" has been scrubbed my me in both images as it's a product name.
Enabling the checkbox "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" in the Options > Advanced menu fixed this for me:
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I got an Enterprise Architect document which has its diagrams locked, see screenshot below from clicking in the diagram background using the context menu:
The Lock Diagram option is active and cannot be selected. (How) can I unlock the diagram?
Seems that user security is activated. See https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/modeling/lockdiagram.html and references therein for further information.
The dirty way to disable security is by running a SQL
DELETE FROM t_secpolicies
This will clear the entry where Property = "UserSecurity". Now it's a plain model. Either you can run a script from within EA (if that was not blocked) using repository.Execute("<the SQL>") or doing so from an outside client (EAP is M$Access, others could be opened using Toad or similar clients).
The legal way is to enter a security key in the Enable Security (no typo, this is EA!) menu to disable it.
The problem was that the Enterprise Architect project was opened directly from an email.
Due to this, and the file probably got (file based) locked by Outlook, Enterprise Architect locked the diagrams.
Solution: save the file in Outlook (or whatever mail application) to another file location and open the Enterprise Architect from there.
A better solution would be that Enterprise Architect would show a decent warning message that the file is opened in some kind of readonly state.
I'm using VS 2015 and TFS 2013 update 4.
I was able to see the name of person who last modified/updated and so on above
method classes but right now it just show author names which are in Unicode by question mark
What's the problem?
Updated:
Now all of Unicode charecters are gone even in c# files
Close all instances of Visual Studio.
Delete all the cached data in the folder %localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio Services\6.0\
Restart Visual Studio and re-open the solution from TFS.
Please try:
1). Add the author name's language in Control Panel.
2). Open that file with "CSharp Editor with Encoding".
3). Reset VS to the default settings: devenv /ResetSettings
I found the solution
Tools ====> options ===> Environment ====> show settings for : CodeLens
and then changed Font type to tahoma.
I check vs on other machines the font on others were sets to calibri but Unicode characters displayed correctly
for more info you can go to
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn269218.aspx
How do I change the font and color for CodeLens?
A: Go to Tools, Options, Environment, Fonts and Colors.
Hey so I made a crows foot database ERD in Visio 2013 at home and now am trying to open the .VSDX file in Visio 2010 at work and I get an error message saying the file is corrupt or is not a visio file.
The file can't be corrupt as I used it just fine at home and it obviously is a Visio file. Is there some type of update or extension I can install to fix this?
You can download the Compatibility Pack, see this KB:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2844302
The compatibility pack itself is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39640
What solved this for me......I was using Office 2013 with Visio 2013. Went to Firefox menu (3 hash marks on far right) > options > application > type visio in the search bar > it pulled up ms-visio as content type and I changed the action from "use Microsoft Visio" to Use "Microsoft Office 2013" - there was no save or close, but the changes were accepted. Closed the tab for options and tried to open Visio and it worked!
You should open the file in visio 2013 first then
from file menu choose save as
then from save as type choose 2003-2010 drawing
click ok
The new file now is can be opened using Visio 2010.
this solution here.
I have a really interesting situation here. I'm running Windows 8 Pro x64 with Office 2013 (Office 365, more specifically) running. Somewhere while I was setting up Outlook, I made a mistake causing it to create in invalid .ost file. I found the file in Explorer and it happens to be an empty file.
All the solutions to this involve using the Mail icon in the Control Panel. That'd be great, but it doesn't exist! I've searched and searched for solutions to this issue, and I can't find a single one that applies to Windows 8. Either the solution is so outdated that it's not even usable in Windows 8, or the solution somehow doesn't work with my setup.
I've come to an absolute end of ideas for this, and I've decided to come to see if anyone here can wrestle down my problem. Thanks for your help!
Edit: I've thought of a few possible solutions, and the only one that seems remotely feasible seems to be to completely restart the Outlook setup process. However, I can't figure out how to do this, and I can't reinstall just Outlook because it's part of Office 365. Any help on this would be incredibly helpful. Thanks!
Did you try deleting (or renaming/moving, to be more cautious) the empty .ost file? Once it's not there, that may cause Outlook to regenerate it properly.
Is there anything listed in your "Add/remove programs" for Outlook 2013 or Office 365? I've been running Outlook 2013 (in its beta glory) for awhile, and I occasionally have issues which are fixed by doing a quick repair.
To do a quick repair:
Press Windows key + Q. Search for "remove programs" and change the search scope filter to "Settings".
Select "Change or remove a program".
I have "Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 - en-us" as one of my programs. Click that (or something similar for Office 2013) and then click "Change".
Select "Quick Repair" and click "Repair".
Finally, if none of that works, here's how to find the Mail icon in the Control Panel:
Bring the mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen (where the Start button used to be) and right-click. Select "Control Panel".
In Control Panel in the upper right-hand corner, there is a "View by" dropdown menu. It may be set to "Category". Change it to "Large icons".
I now see a Mail icon. If it's not showing up for you, that probably means that Outlook wasn't configured properly and you do need to reinstall.
Hope this helps.
I have an MSDN subscription and I've installed Visio 2013. I am not able to activate the product and it has reduced to a read-only state.
Any attempts to activate or "Switch Account" are met with "Sorry, we are having some temporary server issues." I've found a few posts referencing removing an office-related key from the registry but this has not helped.
At one point I believe I'd also heard that our network might be blocking activation, but don't have a handle on how that would be coming into play exactly (if at all).
Have others encountered and (hopefully) found a fix to this issue?
Go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Microsoft Visio Professional 2013
Right click on Microsoft Visio Professional 2013 and click on "Change"
Then select "Enter a Product Key" and supply your 25 digit licence key to activate.
Here is a little more detail on the Control Panel/Programs and Features method for entering product codes.
This worked with Office 2010 previously installed and then a later Visio 2013 Pro installation that didn't provide the activation dialog.
In Programs and Features
Right click Microsoft Visio Professional 2013
You'll see Uninstall (default) and Change. Select Change
You'll get a dialog with these options
Add or Remove Features
Repair
Remove
Enter a Product Key (voila!)
Select Product Key and the rest goes as expected.
Footnote: I spend 45 minutes in six conversations with four different Microsoft support teams trying to fix this. None knew how to address the issue.
I had the same problem. To activate I had to go to "Control Panel\Programs and Features\Microsoft Visio Professional 2013" and choose the "repair" option; you will be asked to insert your product key. Now my Visio is activated and I can create new diagrams, but I continue having problems using online options.
If your system is an offline computer, you will need to call the MS Support Center and give them your code which shows on your screen. Then in return enter the long string of digits they give you back.