Write PowerPoint Files in C# and VB.Net
This article explains how to write PowerPoint presentations in C# and VB.NET .
Creating PowerPoint presentation programmatically with Essential Presentation library is easy and straightforward. Essential PowerPoint library supports writing PowerPoint presentations in C# and VB.NET to a file or a stream. This functionality is exposed through the Presentation.Save method overloads.
The following C#/VB example shows how to write PowerPoint files.
using Syncfusion.Presentation;
namespace Write PowerPoint file
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Create PowerPoint Presentation
using (IPresentation presentation = Presentation.Create())
{
//Add slide to the PowerPoint
ISlide slide = presentation.Slides.Add(SlideLayoutType.Blank);
//Add textbox to the slide
IShape textboxShape = slide.AddTextBox(0, 0, 500, 500);
//Add paragraph to the textbody of textbox
IParagraph paragraph = textboxShape.TextBody.AddParagraph();
//Add a TextPart to the paragraph
ITextPart textPart = paragraph.AddTextPart();
//Add text to the TextPart
textPart.Text = "AdventureWorks Cycles, the fictitious company on which the AdventureWorks sample databases are based, is a large, multinational manufacturing company."
//Save the Presentation
presentation.Save("Output.pptx");
}
}
}
}
Imports Syncfusion.Presentation
Module Module1
Sub Main()
'Create PowerPoint Presentation
Dim presentationDocument As IPresentation = Presentation.Create()
'Add slide to the PowerPoint
Dim slide As ISlide = presentationDocument.Slides.Add(SlideLayoutType.Blank)
'Add textbox to the slide
Dim textboxShape As IShape = slide.AddTextBox(0, 0, 500, 500)
'Add paragraph to the textbody of textbox
Dim paragraph As IParagraph = textboxShape.TextBody.AddParagraph()
'Add a TextPart to the paragraph
Dim textPart As ITextPart = paragraph.AddTextPart()
'Add text to the TextPart
textPart.Text = "AdventureWorks Cycles, the fictitious company on which the AdventureWorks sample databases are based, is a large, multinational manufacturing company."
'Save the Presentation
presentationDocument.Save("Output.pptx")
'Close the Presentation
presentationDocument.Close()
End Sub
End Module
