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Modify Visio 2010 Beta VDX to work with RTM

I mentioned some of the issues I had with .vdx files created in Visio 2010 Beta and opening them with RTM here. It seems that you can actually modify them manually to fix this error by simply using any text editor to open the .vdx in question and change...

xmlns:v14='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/visio/2009/7/extension'

...to...

xmlns:v14='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/visio/2010/extension'

...on the first line and it then opens in RTM fine. Only tried this on a few files, but so far seems to work fine.

Visio 2010 RTM - An error (269) occurred during the action Open File.

I recently upgraded some of my machines from the Office 2010 Beta products to RTM. This included Visio 2010 Premium. Unfortunately when trying to open a previously created and saved (In Visio 2010 Beta) XML Drawing file (.vdx), I was getting the following error...

"An error (269) occurred during the action Open File.

Visio cannot open the XML file. The file was saved from a pre-release version of Visio and contains pre-release namespace URIs."

Presumably there is someway of modifying the file to change/update URIs manually, but luckily I had Beta still running on another machine which could still open the file, saved it as a Drawing (.vsd) and am now able to open, resave it etc.

UPDATE - 27/05/2010 - Manual modification of these files seems to work fine as per this post.