Programming an add-in w/ Visual C# .NET

[Guest]

OK, I'll try and explain this to the best of my ability. I do PowerPoint for
my church. We have a huge directory of every song that we sing in separate
PowerPoint files. For every Sunday, I insert each song individually. In
order to make it simpler, I'm writing a program using Visual C# .NET that
will ultimately insert each song all at once. How can I make my program work
with PowerPoint? Or, is there any way to add it into PowerPoint?

 

[Thurlowe Riley]

Are the songs all ready on slides or are they in an other format?

 

[Guest]

Yes, they are all ready on slides. I'm just writing a program to insert them
all at the same time so i don't have to go back and find each individual file.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Yes, they are all ready on slides. I'm just writing a program to insert them
all at the same time so i don't have to go back and find each individual file.

This should be quite "do-able" but I'd suggest you first do it in VBA within
PowerPoint to get the concept and implementation worked out, then translate to
C# if you feel it's necessary.

If nothing else, you'll be able to find a lot more help with VBA code.

In any case, it's fairly simple to insert slides into one presentation from
another:

Sub InsertSlidesFrom(sSongPresentation As String)
' This will insert all of the slides from sSongPresentation into the currently
' active presentation
' Up to you to add errorchecking/handling
' It appends the slides from sSongPresentation to the end of the current pres

Call ActivePresentation.Slides.InsertFromFile(sSongPresentation, _
ActivePresentation.Slides.Count)

End Sub

 

[Thurlowe Riley]

"Thulowe Riley"
My church uses easy worship and it seems it would solve alot of your issues
http://www.easyworship.com/home.php