How to create a WinForms PowerPoint file in C#?
The following steps demonstrate how to create a simple Windows forms Presentation application using Presentation library.
Step 1: Create a new Windows Forms application. Name it as GettingStarted.
Step 2: Install Presentation assemblies with NuGet
In Visual Studio, select Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Package Manager Console and execute the below command for the project.
install-package Syncfusion.Presentation.Base
Step 3: Add a new button in the form editor.
Step 4: Include the below code snippet in the click event of the button in Form.cs, to create a PowerPoint presentation and save it as a file.
//Creates a new instance of PowerPoint Presentation
IPresentation presentation = Presentation.Create();
//Adds a slide to the PowerPoint Presentation
ISlide firstSlide = presentation.Slides.Add(SlideLayoutType.Blank);
//Adds a textbox in a slide by specifying its position and size
IShape textShape = firstSlide.AddTextBox(100, 75, 756, 200);
//Adds a paragraph into the textShape
IParagraph paragraph = textShape.TextBody.AddParagraph();
//Set the horizontal alignment of paragraph
paragraph.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignmentType.Center;
//Adds a textPart in the paragraph
ITextPart textPart = paragraph.AddTextPart("Hello Presentation");
//Applies font formatting to the text
textPart.Font.FontSize = 80;
textPart.Font.Bold = true;
//Adds a new paragraph with text.
paragraph = textShape.TextBody.AddParagraph("Adventure Works Cycles, the fictitious company on which the AdventureWorks sample databases are based, is a large, multinational manufacturing company. The company manufactures and sells metal and composite bicycles to North American, European and Asian commercial markets");
//Sets the list type as bullet
paragraph.ListFormat.Type = ListType.Bulleted;
//Sets the bullet character for this list
paragraph.ListFormat.BulletCharacter = Convert.ToChar(183);
//Sets the font of the bullet character
paragraph.ListFormat.FontName = "Symbol";
//Sets the hanging value as 20
paragraph.FirstLineIndent = -20;
//Adds a new paragraph
paragraph = textShape.TextBody.AddParagraph("In 2000, Adventure Works Cycles bought a small manufacturing plant, Importadores Neptuno, located in Mexico.");
//Sets the list type as bullet
paragraph.ListFormat.Type = ListType.Bulleted;
//Sets the list level as 2. Possible values can range from 0 to 8
paragraph.IndentLevelNumber = 2;
//Gets the image from file path
Image image = Image.FromFile(@"image.jpg");
// Adds the image to the slide by specifying position and size
firstSlide.Pictures.AddPicture(new MemoryStream(image.ImageData), 300, 270, 410, 250);
//Saves the Presentation in the given name
presentation.Save("Output.pptx");
//Releases the resources occupied
presentation.Close();
Step 5: Compile & execute the application. Now this application creates a simple PowerPoint presentation.
See Also:
Create a PowerPoint file in ASP.NET MVC
Create a PowerPoint file in ASP.NET
Create a PowerPoint file in Xamarin
Create a PowerPoint file in WPF
Create a PowerPoint file in UWP
Create a PowerPoint file in ASP.NET Core
Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed learning about how to create a WinForms Presentation file in C#.
You can refer to our WinForms Presentation feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our WinForms Presentation documentation to understand how to create and manipulate data.
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