security error, I think!

[Guest]

Hi I am trying to open a powerpoint app from a asp.net webpage but get a non
access error when I try to create the PowerPoint.Application. Just wondering
if anyone knows what directories it may be trying to write in as I was
thinking off adding permissions to aspnet for those directories. Thanks.

 

[Siva M]

Are you trying to automate PowerPoint on the server side? Office application
automation on the server side is not recommended/supported by Microsoft.
Those apps are meant to be user-interactive ones.

Hi I am trying to open a powerpoint app from a asp.net webpage but get a non
access error when I try to create the PowerPoint.Application. Just
wondering
if anyone knows what directories it may be trying to write in as I was
thinking off adding permissions to aspnet for those directories. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Hi thanks for the response. Yes I was trying to create a .net web
application that would take data from a database and create a powerpoint
slide that the user could save on a client machine that contains this data.
I found the link below and it also mentions that it is not recommended.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/257757