How to embedd Power Point Design Templates to Windows Form in Dotn

[Guest]

I need to embedd Power Point Design Templates to Windows Form in Dotnet, C#.

The requirement is that I need to have a Design Template in my custom
windows form similar to PowerPoint. Is it possible to embedd the PowerPoint
slides in the Dotnet Application.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I need to embedd Power Point Design Templates to Windows Form in Dotnet, C#.

The requirement is that I need to have a Design Template in my custom
windows form similar to PowerPoint. Is it possible to embedd the PowerPoint
slides in the Dotnet Application.

This sounds like a proposed solution to a problem.
What's the actual problem?

If you just need the graphics, you can export any PPT slide to a PNG, JPG or
the like and use that as a b/g for your form, for example.

Other than that, I'm not sure what you'd do with a PPT template embedded in
your app; seems to me you'd then need to embed PPT to do anything with it, no?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the immediate reply.

The actual problem is that I need to design and modify layouts from a
Windows form.

The application is actually a designer(eg : like a WYSIWYG Editor embedded
in ASP.Net Pages) where I will have a form that incorporate a
editor(Currently I need a PowerPoint Template) which can edit text and
pictures.

So the requirement being a PPT embedded in the Windows form so that I can
design a template from the Windows form itself

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the immediate reply.

The actual problem is that I need to design and modify layouts from a
Windows form.

The application is actually a designer(eg : like a WYSIWYG Editor embedded
in ASP.Net Pages) where I will have a form that incorporate a
editor(Currently I need a PowerPoint Template) which can edit text and
pictures.

So the requirement being a PPT embedded in the Windows form so that I can
design a template from the Windows form itself

Do you intend to duplicate PPT's functionality or do you plan to automate PPT
to do the editing?

If the latter, do you understand that MS doesn't support automating PPT on the
server and attempting to allow multiple users to use a single copy of PPT is
probably in violation of your license.

 

[Guest]

I would like to either duplicate the PowerPoint functionality into the
Windows form or embed the PowerPoint Design into the Windows form. The
Windows form will be residing in a System which has Microsoft Office

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I would like to either duplicate the PowerPoint functionality into the
Windows form or embed the PowerPoint Design into the Windows form.

I'm not sure what "embed the PowerPoint Design" means to you. If you expect a user
to be able to edit it, then you'll need to automate PowerPoint in some way. The
design itself is a) just a graphic, a picture of what it would look like in
PowerPoint or b) a binary data file that's useless unless you have PPT there to
interpret and render it for you.

Or if it's in the new XML format your app can read at least portions of it and do
whatever you need to with it. You'd need to rewrite whatever parts of PowerPoint
you need in order to do this. Good luck.

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Windows form will be residing in a System which has Microsoft Office

OK, but did you read my other comments about automating Office on the server?
At least I'm assuming this is on a server, since you mention ASP

 

[Guest]

If I need to have the Powerpoint functionality in a Windows form how long
will it take to do the functionality

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

If I need to have the Powerpoint functionality in a Windows form how long
will it take to do the functionality

I'm afraid you'll have to ask someone who's written a PowerPoint clone.
I have no idea.