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Books - Development
Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation
David Parker’s latest developer book helps you to understand and create custom validation rules in Visio 2010. The info in this book will help you to create sophisticated Visio-based solutions that adhere to your diagramming standards!
Moving to VB .NET: Strategies, Concepts, and Code
I used this book to graduate from the VB6/VBA world to VB.NET. Dan Appleman’s approach is well-disciplined and focused on underlying principles, which gives you a good foundation upon which to build your .NET education!
Pro WPF
APress’ offering on XAML, .NET 3.0 and WPF is well written, very thorough, and easy to read! Anybody interested in graphics, user-interfaces or visualisation will want to learn about this new technologies from Microsoft!
Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed
If you want to learn about the new world of XAML, .NET 3.0, and WPF/Avalon, this book covers the topics very well, and is beautifully presented in full color — even the code samples!
Companies
Altima NetZoom
You probably won’t find a more extensive and thorough provider of Visio network shapes!
Apprentice Systems
The products from Apprentice Systems can be used to extend existing Visio shapes into full blown applications that range from quotation and esitmation, business process modeling, decision modeling, and engineering assembly modeling. Have a look!
b-Visual
Your United Kingdom headquarters for All Things Visio. The folks at b-Visual are Microsoft Certified Professionals and have some very creative solutions and tools.
Codima Technologies
Codima Toolbox offers inventory, mapping, performance monitoring, & VoIP mgmt tools for visualizing IT assets with Visio. These bring visibility to networks, improve QOS, reduce net-downtime, simplify IT budgeting, auditing, & compliance.
DataAssist
Die Visio-experten in Deutschland seit 1991. DataAssist macht Visio-consulting und bietet die NetdocAD und Netdoc Server Produkte an.
SanDriLa
SanDriLa offers a Visio-based application for creating and managing SDL communications diagrams. They also produce various Visio Super Utilities — tools that help you automate repetitive tasks and analyze your Visio drawings. They also have several othe
ShapeSource
ShapeSource is operated by Visimation. Here you’ll find lots of Visio shapes, products, and development tools for sale and for free.
Visimation
Venerable Visio-solutions provider Visimation has been around since 1997 and know what they’re doing, darn it! They provide Visio consulting as well as offer products for sale. Visimation is also responsible for the extensive ShapeSource web site and pr
Resources - Visio Development
John Marshall’s MVP Site (VBA Page)
VBA code-snippets for lots of things you’d like to do with Visio!
Org-chart Command Line Arguments
Explains how to run Visio’s Org Chart Wizard via the command line, and enumerates the arguments that you’ll need to do it!
Visio 2003 SDK
The Visio 2003 Software Development Kit is full of must-have examples, sample projects, help files and developer tools!
Visio 2007 SDK
The Visio 2007 Software Development Kit is full of must-have examples, sample projects, help files and developer tools!
Visio Community
MSDN’s links to Visio blogs, events, newsgroups, newsletters, magazines, MVP info, partners and more!
Visio Developer Portal
MSDN’s Visio developer portal.
Resources - Visio General
Microsoft Office Online – Visio
General home page for the Visio product.
Microsoft Template Gallery
There are Visio templates on this site…somewhere. Happy hunting!
Visio 2002 Shortcut Keys
A nice Visio drawing in VSD format from Visio Cafe.
Visio 2002 Shortcut Reference
A Microsoft-provided guide, which downloads an EXE that simply unzips a good-looking PDF to your hard drive.
Visio 2003 Keyboard Shortcut Mousepad
Keep those shortcuts handy, and your mouse-hand cozy! From Dan Brown on greenions.
Visio 2003 Keyboard Shortcuts
A boring but well-organized collapsable list of Visio shortcuts from Microsoft.
Visio 2003 Quick Guide
A nice PDF file from the folks at Ball State University.
Visio Community
MSDN’s links to Visio blogs, events, newsgroups, newsletters, magazines, MVP info, partners and more!
Visio Editions Matrix
A chart that shows the differences between Visio Standard, Professional and Enterprise Architect.
Visio Blogs
Bill Morein: Visio & Data Visualization
Great info from a member of the MS Visio team
David Parker: bVisual
Be smart, be clear, be visual!
Eric Rockey: Visio 2007
Great info from a member of the MS Visio team
John Goldsmith’s visLog
Words of “Visdom from London. A beautiful blog about the technical aspects of Visio, and the coolest header-graphic on the planet!
John Marshall: Visio Information
The Granddaddy of them all. Visio shapes, code samples, history, links, and more!
Saveen Reddy’s Blog
This non-Visio Microsoftie has lots of interesting Visio-related posts
ShapeBlog
A blog from the folks at Visimation. Lots of news flashes about Visio, conferences, etc.
Visio Insights
Lots of good technical information from the Microsoft Visio team.
Visio The Blog
Maintained by Visio MVPs, this site occasionally posts mostly Visio development-related articles.
Visio Books
Using Microsoft Visio 2010
Using Microsoft Visio 2010 shows you how to use Visio 2010′s newest features, develope a solid foundation of Visio skills, and progress from novice to Power User in 380 pages!
Visio 2003 Developer’s Survival Pack
Graham Wideman’s masterpiece is quite simply a MUST for Visio developers.
Visualizing Information with Microsoft Visio 2007
David J. Parker of bVisual.net, has written an excellent book will help you harness the power of the data-integration and visualization features in Visio 2007
Visio Code Samples
John Marshall’s MVP Site (VBA Page)
VBA code-snippets for lots of things you’d like to do with Visio!
Visio Merchandise
Visio 2003 Keyboard Shortcut Mousepad
Keep those shortcuts handy, and your mouse-hand cozy! From Dan Brown on greenions.
Visio Shapes
ShapeSource
Shapes, stencils, templates and add-ons from long-time Visio experts Visimation. This site offers free and for-purchase Visio content and tools.
Visio Information Stencils & Templates
John Marshall’s links to Visio shapes and stencils
Visio Shapes - Engineering
Isometric Piping Shapes for Visio
3D isometric piping shapes, with isometric fonts and glueing capabilities.
Visio Electrical Shapes from Sandrila Ltd.
Visio shapes and symbols for domestic and light industrial electrical installations.
Visio Shapes - Hobby
Knitting Symbol Stencils
The String or Nothing website offers a set of knitting stencils containing a basic shape set, along with increases and decreases, and cables.
Woodworking Shop Design: Visio Tools
Harvey Chute’s classic stencil for organizing your shop includes shapes such as: bandsaw, drill press, jointer, lathe, table saw, mitersaw, and more!
Visio Shapes - Network
ADC – Krone
Free Krone stencils, provided by Visimation.
Altima NetZoom
You probably won’t find a more extensive and thorough provider of Visio network shapes!
Blue Coat
A set of four stencils, containing 229 shapes Blue Coat-related Visio networking master shapes.
Cisco scale and block devices
Cisco scale and block devices
Cisco Visio Shapes
A whole slew of Cisco equipment stencils…from Cisco.
LAN MapShot Custom Stencils
Add custom stencils for Cisco switches, routers, and hubs to your LAN MapShot application for a more detailed display of your network infrastructure. FREE Cisco Stencils.
Microsoft (Softricity) SoftGrid Visio Stencil
Diagram your application virtualization systems using these Visio shapes for SoftGrid clients, various server components and individual shapes for creating your own objects.
MTMnet, Inc.Visio Icons Page
Free stencils of equipment from: 3Com, Cisco, Extreme, Adtran, Foundry Network and Juniper Networks.
Packeteer Network Equipment Shapes
28 nicely-drawn Packeteer Visio network master shapes
SCCM 2007 Visio Stencils
Stencils for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 with the Operations Manager 2007 look and feel, by Cameron Fuller.
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Visio Stencils
Visio stencils for Operations Manager 2007 for creating OpsMgr 2007 diagrams.
Visio Guy: Network Shapes
Our very own Network Shape offerings
VisioCafe
Lots of manufacturer-specific Visio network shapes – for free!
Zeus ZXTM Appliances
Thanks from the ZXTM KnowledgeHub team!
Visio Shapes - Plan View
Woodworking Shop Design: Visio Tools
Harvey Chute’s classic stencil for organizing your shop includes shapes such as: bandsaw, drill press, jointer, lathe, table saw, mitersaw, and more!
Visio Shapes - SharePoint
SharePoint Wireframe Drawing
Wireframe Visio drawing for MOSS 2007, with shapes that you can reposition and modify for your own sites.
Visio template for SharePoint 2003
A Visio template and stencil for designing SharePoint 2003 portals and sites. The link takes you to the download page, which is complete with instructions!
Visio template for SharePoint 2007 (and MOSS)
A Visio template and stencil for designing SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 portals and sites. The link takes you to the download page, which is complete with instructions!
Visio Shapes - Wireframes, Website layout, IA
SharePoint Wireframe Drawing
Wireframe Visio drawing for MOSS 2007, with shapes that you can reposition and modify for your own sites.
Visio Wireframe Shapes
Michael Angeles has a few stencils for designing web-site wireframes.
Visio Wireframe Stencil
Michael Angeles has a few stencils for designing web-site wireframes.
Visio Templates
Microsoft Template Gallery
There are Visio templates on this site…somewhere. Happy hunting!
ShapeSource
Shapes, stencils, templates and add-ons from long-time Visio experts Visimation. This site offers free and for-purchase Visio content and tools.
Visio Information Stencils & Templates
John Marshall’s links to Visio shapes and stencils
Visio Tools
NetDoc AD
Automatically diagram your Active Directories with this tool from DataAssist!
ShapeSource
Shapes, stencils, templates and add-ons from long-time Visio experts Visimation. This site offers free and for-purchase Visio content and tools.
Visio Flowcharts from XML Code Library
An addition to Saveen Reddy’s VisioAutoExt open source code library allows you to create flowcharts automatically using simple XML as input.
Visio Super Utilities from Sandrila Ltd.
A collection of Visio utilities and tools all packaged into a Visio add-on. Unlike VBA macros these utilities are available for all your diagrams and are already digitally signed to allow you to work at the standard High security settings.
Visio Tools - Networking
Exchange Server Add-In for Visio 2007 Pro
This Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Add-In for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 that you can use to diagram a Microsoft Exchange Server site topology, including sites, servers, and connections for an organization.
JDTools Network Shapes
Visio stencils for SAN switches, IBM servers, STK robots and STK disks
Rack Server Virtualization (Virtual Rack)
Rack Server Virtualization Add-in provides the capability to pull the rack-server data either from an Excel spread sheet or from the user and render the Visio diagram.
Siemon Products
Visio Stencils for Siemon products
Visio Web Sites
John Marshall: Visio Information
The Granddaddy of them all. Visio shapes, code samples, history, links, and more!
Visio.jp
Formerly Visio Square. This site is in japanese, but it’s really cool to see Visio diagrams and articles with kanji and kana! This site has been around for years and includes a bulletin board / discussion forum.
