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PowerPointTemplate

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provides

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an

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intuitive

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high-performance

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way

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to

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import

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database

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values

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to

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a

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presentation,

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but

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cannot

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otherwise

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modify

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a

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presentation

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at

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runtime.

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The

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PowerPointApplication

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object

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model

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allows

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you

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to

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modify

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additional

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aspects

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of

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the

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presentation

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at

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runtime.

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Excerpt

You

can

take

advantage

of

the

features

of

both

PowerPointApplication

and

PowerPointTemplate

by

using

them

together.

For

example,

you

can

use

PowerPointTemplate

to

open

and

populate

a

PowerPointWriter

template,

then

pass

the

populated

presentation

to

PowerPointApplication

to

modify

document

properties.

{excerpt} h2. PowerPointTemplate to PowerPointApplication To pass a presentation from PowerPointTemplate to PowerPointApplication, do not call [PowerPointTemplate.Save|PowerPointTemplate.Save]. Instead, pass the PowerPointTemplate object to PowerPointApplication's [Open|PowerPointApplication.Open] method: {csharp} PowerPointTemplate

PowerPointTemplate to PowerPointApplication

To pass a presentation from PowerPointTemplate to PowerPointApplication, do not call PowerPointTemplate.Save. Instead, pass the PowerPointTemplate object to PowerPointApplication's Open method:

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languagec#
 PowerPointTemplate pptt = new PowerPointTemplate();
pptt.Open(templatePath);
pptt.BindData(valuesArray, colNamesArray,"DataSourceName", pptt.CreateDataBindingProperties());
pptt.Process();

//--- Create an instance of PowerPointApplication and
//--- open the presentation you created with PowerPointTemplate.
//--- The presentation will be returned as a Presentation
//--- object.
PowerPointApplication ppta = new PowerPointApplication();
Presentation pres = ppta.Open(pptt);
{csharp}
{vbnet}

Dim 
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languagevb
 Dim pptt As PowerPointTemplate = new PowerPointTemplate();
pptt.Open(templatePath);
pptt.BindData(valuesArray, colNamesArray,"DataSourceName", pptt.CreateDataBindingProperties());
pptt.Process();

//--- Create an instance of PowerPointApplication and
//--- open the presentation you created with PowerPointTemplate.
//--- The presentation will be returned as a Presentation
//--- object.
Dim ppta As PowerPointApplication = new PowerPointApplication();
Dim pres As Presentation = ppta.Open(pptt);
{vbnet}

h2. PowerPointApplication to PowerPointTemplate

To pass a presentation from PowerPointApplication to PowerPointTemplate, do not call [PowerPointApplication.Save]. Instead, pass the [PowerPointApplication] object, along with the [Presentation] object that you want to populate, to PowerPointTemplates's [Open|PowerPointTemplate.Open] method:
{csharp}
PowerPointApplication 

PowerPointApplication to PowerPointTemplate

To pass a presentation from PowerPointApplication to PowerPointTemplate, do not call PowerPointApplication.Save. Instead, pass the PowerPointApplication object, along with the Presentation object that you want to populate, to PowerPointTemplates's Open method:

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 PowerPointApplication ppta = new PowerPointApplication();
Presentation present = ppta.Open("StartingFile.pptx");

//--- Code modifying and customizing the presentation here

PowerPointTemplate ppt = new PowerPointTemplate();
ppt.Open(ppta, present);

{csharp}
{vbnet}

Dim 
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languagevb
 Dim ppta As PowerPointApplication = new PowerPointApplication();
Dim present As Presentation = ppta.Open("StartingFile.pptx");

//--- Code modifying and customizing the presentation here

Dim ppt As PowerPointTemplate = new PowerPointTemplate();
ppt.Open(ppta, present);

{vbnet}