Information Sites

bVisual Microsoft Visio & MapPoint Solution Providers

This page lists websites that have Visio related information.

Microsoft: Microsoft's website
Graham Wideman: Graham has been a Microsoft Visio MVP since Visio was acquired by Microsoft. He maintains a second website at Diagramantics
BVisual: UK, Europe)
John Goldsmith's Vislog: UK, Europe)
Data Assist: (Germany, Europe)
Design Drawing webzine: "Design-drawing is the webzine for technical professionals looking for fast, easy design and drawing solutions."
Indezine: is a platform for presentations - especially those concerned with Microsoft PowerPoint. This page has a good explanation on how to use Visio in a PowerPoint presentation.
upFront.eZine: Ralph Grabowski online, including: Visions.eZine "the-newsletter for the Visio and IntelliCAD user"
Ravelin: (Netherlands, Europe)
Visimation US: (Seattle and other US locations)
Nichkov Aleksey (AKA: Digitall) has a number of good article's but they are in Russian. Use http://babelfish.altavista.com/ to get a reasonable translation from Russian to English

CADinfo.NET:This site has several articles, tutorials and tips for Visio.
Design Draw: ??
University of Arizona: Wiesband.(mosaic)
University of Texas: Course 325.
CNET Tutorial - Create Effective Visio diagrams fror Network documentation
CNET Tutorial - Visualize deadlines in Visio
CNET Tutorial - Create a timeline in Visio to help team members visualize deadlines
CNET Tutorial - Create your own custom stencils in Microsoft Visio

DVS: "Developing Visio Solutions" is the best starting point for learning about programming with Visio. It's free and comes with Visio. If you did not receive it as a printed book, an Acrobat version of the book is included on the Visio CD. This has been replaced on later versions of Visio by the book "Developing Microsoft Visio Solutions"
"Professional Development with Visio 2000" by David Edson (Sams Publishing): If you need more help with programming with Visio then David's book is the one to get. It covers the differences between Visio 5 and Visio 2000 and has examples of interfacing Visio with Ms Outlook, MS Powerpoint, MS Word and MS Access. Though it has not been upgraded for Visio 2002, it is still a good book to have.
"Visio 2000 Developer's Survival Guide" by Graham Wideman (Trafford Publishing): Graham's book is a good companion book to David's book. It provides more insight into several Visio features.
"Visio 2002 Developer's Survival Pack" by Graham Wideman (Trafford Publishing): Graham upgraded and expanded his book for Visio 2002.
"Visio 2003 Developer's Survival Pack" by Graham Wideman (Trafford Publishing): The next version of Graham's book updated for Visio 2003. A definite asset for anyone doing serious development with Visio.