You can programmatically access your child templates using RadGridView.MasterGridViewTemplate.ChildGridViewTemplates templates collection. For example to modify AutoSizeColumnsMode to Fill in the first child template use the following code:
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Me.RadGridView1.MasterTemplate.Templates(0).AutoSizeColumnsMode = Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.Fill