Chapter 16. Adding Data to Visio SmartShape Symbols Under Automation

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • Adding Sections to SmartShapes Symbols' ShapeSheets

  • Adding Rows to SmartShapes Symbols' ShapeSheets

  • The Automated-Stop-Sign-Generation Application

You have already learned how to retrieve and set information in Visio SmartShape symbol's ShapeSheet cells via the Formula and Result properties of a Cell object. However, there may be times when the information that you want to manipulate does not exist yet. Perhaps your application wants to add a specialized context-menu (right-click) item to a specific SmartShape symbol. Perhaps you need to programmatically populate a given SmartShape symbol with custom properties to track information about the particular symbol. ...

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