Custom Task Pane in PowerPoint

[Marcel Grieder via OfficeKB.com]

Hi Everyone,

I am searching on the web for solutions for this problem now for 2 days,
but the answers i found are more confusing than helpful to me.

I should create a custom toolbar for MS Powerpoint (if possible in C#) for
my Company. With this task pane, the user should be able to search for
images on the WebService of amazon.com, to return images. These images
could be inserted into the presentation.
So far, so good.

Now, i got many possible approaches from the net, but none of those go me
further.

InfoPath: I could insert the code from C#, that i already developed (and
worked) into a InfoPath Document, but found no way to create a task pane
out of it.

Smart Documents: I guess, those would work fine for Word & Excel, but not
for PowerPoint.

Does anyone know, if my plans are possible or not? Are there any
professionals on this topic?

Thanks for help,
Marcel

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

As far as I know, PowerPoint offers no support for creating custom task panes.
You'll probably need to take a different approach, a userform, perhaps.

 

[Austin Myers]

Not certain what the question is but if you are trying to develop your own
task pane I don't think you can do it with PPT. The object model just
doesn't support it.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Solutions to Multimedia in PowerPoint www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Marcel Grieder via OfficeKB.com]

Hi Austin,

Yes, you understood the question right.
Well, in that case, i can stop search for solutions.

Thanks to both of you.

Marcel

 

[Marcel Grieder via OfficeKB.com]

Short Update:

From another source, I got the tip to try to work within the "Research"-
Task Pane. This pane is avaliable in PowerPoint, too, and can be customized
with C#-code.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/dnofftalk/html/office03062003.asp

I already started to develop my solution and came very far.

Regards,
Marcel