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    <p>You're right - the Masters collection is ReadOnly. Documents normally start off with an empty masters collection. The collection gets populated by dropping masters from a stencil document.</p> <p>If you want to create a new document with a pre-populated Masters collection then you could create your own template (.vst) and then base your new document on that. For example:</p> <pre><code>Visio.Document vDoc = vDocs.Add("MyTemplateFile.vst"); </code></pre> <p>Normally you would package your stencils and templates together and then always create shapes by dropping a master from the respective stencil document (.vss).</p> <p>Masters also have a MatchByName property. Dropping a master when this property is set to true, Visio first checks that a master of the same exists in the drawing document masters collection. If it does an instance of that master will be dropped. If not a new master will be added based on the original stencil. Have a look at these two links for more information:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa201768%28office.10%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa201768%28office.10%29.aspx</a></li> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff766298.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff766298.aspx</a></li> </ul> <p>If you really want to create your own masters in code, you can draw / drop your own shapes on the page and then use the Document.Drop method to add it to the masters collection.</p> <p>Also if you want to use a master by name then you'll need to loop through the masters collection to check that it exists before you use it.</p>
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    1. COthanks. Do you know of a decent forum and/or some good resources for generating Visio documents programattically? I spent a few hours on this yesterday and mostly fumbled my way through. I still have some questions such as how do I figure out what connection points a shape has and how can I address a specific connection point?
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    2. COCheck out these two links [Analyze Connectivity Between Process Flows - VisGuy.com](http://www.visguy.com/2009/04/22/analyze-connectivity-between-process-flows/) [Create Visio Flowcharts Programmatically - VisGuy.com](http://www.visguy.com/2006/09/13/create-visio-flowcharts-programmatically/)
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    3. COAlso, in no particular order: [Visio Automation - Saveen Reddy on CodePlex](http://visioautomation.codeplex.com/) [Visio Guy forum](http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php) [TechNet](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/visiogeneral/threads) [Developing Visio Solutions - old but a great resource](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa245244%28office.10%29.aspx) [Visio 2010 SDK](http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=12365) and for a comprehensive list, I'd have a look at [the links section on VisGuy.com](http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/)
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