Identifying a shape parent in visio

Question

Hii i have a visio document which is an BPMN template .In that BPMN document i have placed a BPMN shape and also other shapes from Engineering,FLowChart,Networking,Basic shapes etc by choosing Moreshapes->

and so my BPMN visio document looks like below

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in that BPMN and Task named are a BPMN shapes,Computer is a shape from Network->Computer ,Rectangle is from General->BasicShapes like that the other shape also . (ie) In a BPMN visio document , with the BPMN shape i have the other shapes also.

How to identify the shape parent in c#..???

eg: BPMN named shape is shape from BPMN. Task named shape is shape from BPMN. computer named shape is shape from Network. Rectangle named shape is shape from General.

LocEngineer LocEngineer · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-19T11:50:21

I must admit, this is more difficult than I would have expected. The stencils are actually in the documents collection and they do not contain shapes, only masters. Anyway: this is how you get the parent stencil name for each shape of your active drawing:

using Visio = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Visio;

var visio = (Visio.Application) System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("Visio.Application");
var vsd = visio.ActiveDocument;
foreach(Visio.Shape shape in vsd.Pages[1].Shapes) {
  foreach(Visio.Document stencil in visio.Documents) {
    if (stencil.Type == Visio.VisDocumentTypes.visTypeStencil) {
      foreach(Visio.Master sh in stencil.Masters) {
        if (sh.Name == shape.Name) {
          Console.WriteLine(stencil.Name);
          break;
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Identifying a shape parent in visio

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