Articles filed in category 'PowerPoint'

  • The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Generating PowerPoint Presentations

    By: Kevin Goff

    Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - September/October

    This installment of “The Baker’s Dozen” finds the Baker expanding from pastries to eye candy: generating PowerPoint output. Many power users build presentations using data from Excel or other data sources. This article shows how to automate Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 from within a Visual Studio 2005 application. The article presents a class called GenPPT, which creates several different types of slides, including slides that integrate tables and charts. GenPPT is written in Visual Basic 2005, and the demo program that calls it is written in C#: this demonstrates using multiple .NET languages in a solution.