DevExpress Presentation API Library – Get Started

This example creates a new presentation, adds three slides, and populates slides with content.

Slide #1

Slide #2

Slide #3

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Implementation Details

• Use the Presentation() parameterless constructor to create a new presentation.

  Presentation presentation = new Presentation();

• A newly created presentation contains a single default slide master. The Slide Master is a top-level template slide that you can use as a base for other slides. Slide masters store content, layouts and settings that you can share among derived slides. The default slide master goes first in the Presentation.SlideMasters collection.

  SlideMaster slideMaster = presentation.SlideMasters[0];

• To create a slide, initialize a Slide object and add it to the Presentation.Slides collection. For each slide, specify the layout type as a constructor parameter. In this example, slides use predefined layouts stored in the slide master. To obtain a layout from SlideMaster.Layouts, call the Get or GetOrCreate method.

  Slide slide1 = new Slide(slideMaster.Layouts.Get(SlideLayoutType.Title));
  //...
  presentation.Slides.Add(slide1);

• Layouts add placeholder shapes to slides. Use the Slide.Shapes collection to access placeholder shapes and populate them with content.

  foreach (Shape shape in slide1.Shapes) {
      if (shape.PlaceholderSettings.Type is PlaceholderType.CenteredTitle) {
          shape.TextArea = new TextArea("Daily Testing Status Report");
      }
      if (shape.PlaceholderSettings.Type is PlaceholderType.Subtitle) {
          shape.TextArea = new TextArea($"{DateTime.Now: dddd, MMMM d, yyyy}");
      }
  }

• You can save the resulting presentation to a PPTX file and export it to a PDF file:

  FileStream outputStream = new FileStream(@"..\..\..\data\my-presentation.pptx", FileMode.Create);
  presentation.SaveDocument(outputStream);
  outputStream.Dispose();
  
  presentation.ExportToPdf(new FileStream(@"..\..\..\data\exported-document.pdf", FileMode.Create));

Files to Review

• Program.cs (Program.vb)

Documentation

• Create Your First Presentation with DevExpress Presentation API Library

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