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Comment: Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin
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{excerpt}The [Process|PowerPointTemplate.Process()] method replaces the template's data markers with actual values from the data sources, and creates the output file (the new presentation file) in memory. The [Save|PowerPointTemplate.Save] method can then save the output file to disk, stream it to the browser, or both.{excerpt}
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public void Process()
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Public Sub Process()
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Call {{Process}} after [SetDataSource|PowerPointTemplate.BindData] and before [Save|PowerPointTemplate.Save].

You can call {{Process}} only once for each instance of [PowerPointTemplate].
          
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          PowerPointTemplate pptt = new PoweRPointTemplate();
          pptt.Open(Application["templatepath"] +
               @"\DataBinding\ArrayBindingTemplate2.pptx");

          //--- Set a data source for the data marker "SimpleArray."
          string[] onedim = {"SoftArtisans", "OfficeWriter", "ExcelTemplate"};
          pptt.SetColumnDataSource(onedim, "SimpleArray");

          //--- Process the template to populate it with the data source data.
          pptt.Process();

          //--- Stream the processed document to the client.
          pptt.Save(Page.Response, "ArrayBinding.pptx", false);
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          Dim pptt As New PowerPointTemplate()
          pptt.Open(Application("templatepath") & _
               "\DataBinding\ArrayBindingTemplate2.pptx")

          '--- Set a data source for the data marker "SimpleArray."
          Dim onedim As String() = {"SoftArtisans", "OfficeWriter", "ExcelTemplate"}
          pptt.SetColumnDataSource(onedim, "SimpleArray")

          '--- Process the template to populate it with the data source data.
          pptt.Process()

          '--- Stream the processed document to the client.
          pptt.Save(Page.Response, "ArrayBinding.pptx", False)
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