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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

  • 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

• 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 produces VoIP pre-assessment and post-deployment tools for VoIP readiness as well as network inventory tools displaying what is installed on an entire infrastructure network using Microsoft® Office Visio
  • 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 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 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!
  • 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.
  • 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 and stencil for designing SharePoint 2003 portals and sites - These guys have a free template and stencil for designing SharePoint 2003 portals and sites.

• 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 template and stencil for designing SharePoint 2003 portals and sites - These guys have a free template and stencil for designing SharePoint 2003 portals and sites.

• 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.
  • 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.

• 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.