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  • Books - Development

      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!

  • Books - Visio Development

  • 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

  • Visio Blogs

  • Visio Code Samples

  • Visio Merchandise

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Visio Shapes - Wireframes, Website layout, IA

  • Visio Templates

  • 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 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.