Using Microsoft Visio 2010

Each book offers an accessible introduction to a computing topic, offering real-world advice and step-by-step tasks, and is integrated with links to online video, podcasts and additional bonus content.

Chris Roth, (Munich Germany) a.k.a. "Visio Guy," worked for Visio Corporation for 8 years as both a developer and a technology evangelist. Now an independent contractor, he specializes in Visio development work, and runs the Visio Guy website, the web's leading resource and discussion forum for Visio and data visualization. A Microsoft Visio MVP since 2002, he actively answers questions in the Microsoft Technet Visio and Visio Guy newsgroups and often presents at Visio conferences.

Chris Roth has always enjoyed creating pictures of any kind and absolutely enjoys the combination of computer technology with graphics. He has been working with Visio since The Beginning in 1992, when he was part of the Visio 1.0 team at then-extant Visio Corporation. Since then, he’s continuously been busy helping customers incorporate diagrams, drawings, and visualizations into their daily business and to develop custom graphical solutions based on Visio.

A Microsoft Visio MVP since 2002, he has presented sessions at several Visio conferences and has written more than 250 articles about Visio for his “Visio Guy” website (www.visguy.com), which he launched in 2006.

Originally from Seattle, he currently lives with his wife and baby daughter in Munich, Germany. Away from family, laptop, and relaxing Bavarian beer gardens, he plays trombone with the TT Orchestra and the wind ensemble Pullacher Blasmusik.