Description
Sets a rectangular array of objects as a template data source.
C#
vb.net
Parameters
arrayData
A rectangular array of objects to use as the data source. By default, the first dimension corresponds to row and the second to column (that is, Object[row,column]).columnNames
The names of the columns to get from the data source. If thecolumnNames
parameter is null, field binding can only be performed by ordinal (for example, %%=DSN.#1 or %%=$DSN). If columnNames
is specified, both ordinal field binding and named field binding can be used.
dataSourceName
The name of the set of data markers at which to insert the values imported from the data source.dataSourceName
must be specified, but can be left as null or an empty string if this is the first data source bound AND the data markers in the template use the short data marker syntax or refer to the datasource by number rather than name. Note: dataSourceName
does not include a data marker's column name, for example, the dataSourceName
for %%=Products.ProductID
is "Products."
property
The DataBindingProperties object which contains information about how the data should be bound to the template.property
The DataBindingProperties object which contains information about how the data should be bound to the template.property
Must be specified, but the DataBindingProperties
need not be set beforehand. To bind data to a template with the default DataBindingProperties
, pass in PowerPointTemplate.CreateDataBindingProperties()
as the property
value.
Exceptions
ArgumentNullException
BindData
will throw this exception if null
(C#) or Nothing
(VB.NET) is passed to the method.