Visio 2013 Preview Drawing Control on a Windows Forms Application Crashes

Question

Visual Studio 2012 crashes when open a form that contains a Visio 2013 Preview Drawing control. (Microsoft Visio 15.0 Drawing Control - Com Component).

Steps to reproduce this issue.

1. Open Visual Studio 2012

2. Create a new Windows Forms Application (C#)

3. Add COM Component Microsoft Visio 15.0 Drawing control to toolbox.

4. Place Visio Drawing Control on Form2.cs[Design].

5. Save all files, project and solution.

6. Close Form1.cs [Design] in the Visual Studio 2012 IDE.

7. Double click Form1.cs in the Solution explorer to edit form [Design] view.

8. Visual Studio Application Crashes at this point.

Is this a known bug in Visio 2013 Preview.

Using the Visio 2013 Drawing Control in VB6 applications also produces the same result.

Our product makes use of the Visio 2013 control in a VB6 application. It is also an issue in Visual Studio 2012.

Any ideas of what is going on?

Answer 1

Hi Adrian,

Thank you trying out Office 2013. I can reproduce the crash right after adding the control to form. Just now I reported the issue to product team. Once I get some updates, I'll keep you update.

thank you sending the feedback.

regards,

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