Programmatically Create a Presentation

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Hello,

I have a customer who wants us to pull information from a SQL Server 2005
database in order to create a powerpoint presentation. The basic idea, is
that they have hundreds of products which contain various information and
images. They want to pick the products they are going to present and create a
powerpoint presentation from it. Once the presentation has been created, they
will tailor transitions, sounds, etc. Can this be achieved using Visual
Studio 2005 or some other tool? Any recommendations would be greatly
appreciated.
 
Hello,

I have a customer who wants us to pull information from a SQL Server 2005
database in order to create a powerpoint presentation. The basic idea, is
that they have hundreds of products which contain various information and
images. They want to pick the products they are going to present and create a
powerpoint presentation from it. Once the presentation has been created, they
will tailor transitions, sounds, etc. Can this be achieved using Visual
Studio 2005 or some other tool? Any recommendations would be greatly
appreciated.
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There are several inexpensive addins that will create presentations from data in
various data file formats; our PPTMerge (http://www.pptools.com/merge/) works
lets you merge from Excel, CSV and Tab Delimited files.

Might be possible to do a custom version that uses data passed to it in an array
or file that you could incorporate into your solution.

Over to you Kurt. Do you guys read SQL databases?
 
You should be able to do it using any programming language which supports
COM easily. There are 3rd party tools too which will accept input in
different formats and generate the presentation automatically.

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Regards,
Shyam Pillai

Toolbox
http://skp.mvps.org/toolbox
 
Hi,
I have a similar problem. I need a program to be written which will query a
database and make graphs and tables onto a powerpoint slide. The tables
queried for each graph or table will be different, so basically one slide
will have different items. Can this be done easliy in VB.NET. Which
programming language will suit us the best.

Regards,
Krishnan
 
Krishnan said:
Hi,
I have a similar problem. I need a program to be written which will query a
database and make graphs and tables onto a powerpoint slide. The tables
queried for each graph or table will be different, so basically one slide
will have different items. Can this be done easliy in VB.NET. Which
programming language will suit us the best.
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Shyam's answer applies here as well. You can do this using VB.Net or any of
several other languages. You'll have to decide whether VB.Net or some other
language will suit you best, though.
 
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