asp.net - Generate Powerpoint file on the fly

asp.net reporting report powerpoint
pearcewg picture pearcewg · Dec 19, 2008 · Viewed 18.4k times · Source

I have a client of my web based application who heavily uses the data from our system for powerpoint presentations.

We currently allow data to export in more traditional file types...PDF, CSV, HTML, and a few others. Powerpoint doesn't seem to be really automated.

Is there a way, on the ASP.NET server side, to automate the creation and on-demand download of a powerpoint file format for a report from a system?

Answer

Zhaph - Ben Duguid picture Zhaph - Ben Duguid · Dec 19, 2008

There's some documentation on MSDN about the OpenXML format that they're using:

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