Hi,

I'm sure I'm being a bit slow on this buit I'm trying to format my diagram and I'm doing this by setting a nodes postion in relation to its parents position. 

Obvioulsy I can store this myself but I was hoping to use the bounds property on the parent node.  Unfortunately this seems to be giving a different set of numbers back from those used to create the diagramnode.  so for example I'm starting off at X=400, Y=400 and when I get the node programatically and look at its bounds it tells me it's at X= 105, Y=53.   When I pass these back (+ a little on the Y param) into the creation of a new desitination diagram it is created above and to the left !

Does anyone know what I'm missing here?

No,

It's all in the same procedure.  I have a set of objects in a database which I am using to build a diagram.

I set the first one

Dim oPointF As PointF = oView.ClientToDoc(New Point(400, 100))
oShape = oDiagram.Factory.CreateShapeNode(oPointF.X, oPointF.Y, 20, 10)

and then in the sampe procedure iterate through until I get the node with the correct tag (set to an id)

For Each oParentNode As ShapeNode In oDiagram.Nodes
                       If CType(oParentNode.Tag, Int32) = Id Then

grab node and get
oParentNode.bounds.top & left (or X & Y)
and these are  different to the values just used to set the parent diagram ?!

Cheers.