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Shapes Panel

The Shapes Panel is represented by a ToolboxControl object set as the value of the DiagramControl.Toolbox property. It displays available shapes that can be dragged to the Canvas. End-users can toggle between full and compact modes by clicking the Expandchevron2/Collapsechevron1 buttons. To change the display mode in code-behind, use the DiagramOptionsView.ToolboxVisibility property.

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End-users can toggle the visibility of the Shapes panel using the Panes menu on the View Ribbon page.

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Shapes are organized into categories. The Quick Shapes category contains recently used shapes.

The search form that is displayed at the top of the panel allows end-users to search a shape by its name. The dropdown button MRU Dropdown Button invokes the list of the most recently used (MRU) search strings.

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