What is VDX? VDX, short name for Visio Drawing XML, is used as the file extension for Visio Drawing XML files. .VDX files are XML files that can be opened by any XML editors. See the sample .VDX file included below.

File Extension: .VDX

MIME Type: application/visio, application/visio.drawing

File Content: Visio Drawing XML

.VDX files are Visio Drawing XML files saved as XML text files. Here is a sample .VDX file opened in a text editor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?gt; 
  <VisioDocument key="5F1774FB73073951F8AC099B943E80EE835B302F3D4F3FF...
  <DocumentPropertiesgt;
  <Creatorgt;FYI., Center</Creatorgt; 
  <BuildNumberCreatedgt;939530207</BuildNumberCreatedgt; 
  <BuildNumberEditedgt;939530207</BuildNumberEditedgt; 
  <PreviewPicture Size="20172"gt;AQAAAIwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEYAAABbAAAAAAAAAA...
  ...
  <CustomPropsgt;
  <CustomProp Name="_VPID_EXTENDED_VDX" PropType="Number"gt;1</CustomPr...
  </CustomPropsgt;
  <TimeCreatedgt;2012-07-06T23:00:56</TimeCreatedgt; 
  <TimeSavedgt;2012-07-06T23:19:03</TimeSavedgt; 
  <TimeEditedgt;2012-07-06T23:06:33</TimeEditedgt; 
  <TimePrintedgt;2012-07-06T23:00:56</TimePrintedgt; 
  </DocumentPropertiesgt;
  <DocumentSettings TopPage="0" DefaultTextStyle="3" DefaultLineStyle...
  <GlueSettingsgt;9</GlueSettingsgt; 
  <SnapSettingsgt;65847</SnapSettingsgt; 
  <SnapExtensionsgt;34</SnapExtensionsgt; 
  <DynamicGridEnabledgt;0</DynamicGridEnabledgt; 
  <ProtectStylesgt;0</ProtectStylesgt; 
  <ProtectShapesgt;0</ProtectShapesgt; 
  <ProtectMastersgt;0</ProtectMastersgt; 
  <ProtectBkgndsgt;0</ProtectBkgndsgt; 
  </DocumentSettingsgt;
  <Colorsgt;
  <ColorEntry IX="0" RGB="#000000" /gt; 
  ...
  </VisioDocumentgt;

.VDX Visio Drawing XML file sample: Click sample.vdx to download.

.VDX Visio Drawing XML files can be created and modified by these software:

• Microsoft Visio 2010 - Creates and edits .VDX Visio Drawing XML files.