Add chart via code

[Scott]

Inside of a WPF project written in C# I'm creating a new PPT presentation via
the interop libraries provided by installing Vistual Studio 2008 (so I guess
that's VSTO 3.0)

I've created the ppt file without issues, but I can't figure out how to add
a chart to a slide. I've got all the data that I want, but when I call the
add chart routine it doesn't seem to give me a way to set the data.

Can anyone provide an example of how to do this?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Inside of a WPF project written in C# I'm creating a new PPT presentation via
the interop libraries provided by installing Vistual Studio 2008 (so I guess
that's VSTO 3.0)

I've created the ppt file without issues, but I can't figure out how to add
a chart to a slide. I've got all the data that I want, but when I call the
add chart routine it doesn't seem to give me a way to set the data.

Can anyone provide an example of how to do this?

If the story in VS is the same as in VB/VBA, no. MS hasn't exposed the chart
object model in 2007.

Another approach might be to install MSGraph (which is available as a custom
install option in Office 2007) and use that. Or if Excel exposes the OM, you
might be able to automate it to create the chart and copy/paste or otherwise
insert that into PPT.

 

[Austin Myers]

If the story in VS is the same as in VB/VBA, no. MS hasn't exposed the
chart
object model in 2007.

Nope, no magic addition to the OM via VS. What ya see is what ya get...


--
Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Nope, no magic addition to the OM via VS. What ya see is what ya get...

IOW, WYSIVBAIWYGIVSTO?

(what you see in vba is what you get in VSTO?)

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

Steve,
I think we have to wake up Cindy Meister who is now a VSTO MVP and was
a Word MVP who actually used Excel and PPT.

Yo, Cindy my darling
You listening?

Brian Reilly, MVP