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This part focuses on passing a presentation between PowerPointTemplate and PowerPointApplication in order to take advantage of the full range of features available with PowerPointWriter.
Adding to the Template
1. Add a new slide to the template from Part 2. This slide will be an optional extra slide that will not be included in the final presentation. For example, Our template file contains a slide with a disclaimer that is not necessary for the presentationcould be removed if necessary, for instance if the presentation was a draft. In this example, we will show you how to remove an optional slide.
The extra slide in the template file look like the following:
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//Code from Part 1
PowerPointTemplate pptt = new PowerPointTemplate();
pptt.Open(Page.MapPath("//templates//part1_template.pptx"));
DataBindingProperties dataProps = pptt.CreateDataBindingProperties();
object[] valuesArray = { "ProjectSurgery NameSchedule", "Project DateJanuary 1, 2014", "Under Review", "LeaderPamela NameBlythe", "Start DateJanuary 1, 2015", "Cost6 Estimatemonths", "Project SummarySoftware to schedule surgeries that require multiple resources such as surgeons, assistants, nurses, pre-op and post-op space, surgery theater, long-term recovery rooms." };
string[] columnNamesArray = { "Name", "Date", "ReviewStatus", "Leader", "Start", "Estimate", "Summary" };
pptt.BindData(valuesArray, columnNamesArray, "Proposal", dataProps);
//Code from Part 2
DataTable dtTeam = GetCSVData(Page.MapPath("//data//Team.csv"));
DataTable dtCost = GetCSVData(Page.MapPath("//data//Cost.csv"));
dataProps.MaxRowsPerSlide = 10;
pptt.BindData(dtTeam, "Team", dataProps);
pptt.BindData(dtCost, "Cost", dataProps);
pptt.Process();
//Code from Part 3
PowerPointApplication ppta = new PowerPointApplication();
Presentation pres = ppta.Open(pptt);
pres.Slides.Delete(numSlides - 1)
ppta.Save(pres, Page.Response, "Part2_Output.pptx", false);
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