Dev Luv: Editing Visio Masters

posted by  varson (7)  16 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

The shapes that you see on the stencil on the left pane of Visio are called “masters.” Think of a master as an object. When you drag a master from the stencil, you are dropping an instance of that master object onto the page. That instance, which we call a Visio shape, inherits its geometry and behaviors from its master.