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.

  Presentationpresentation=newPresentation();

• 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.

  SlideMasterslideMaster=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.

  Slideslide1=newSlide(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(Shapeshapeinslide1.Shapes){if(shape.PlaceholderSettings.TypeisPlaceholderType.CenteredTitle){shape.TextArea=newTextArea("Daily Testing Status Report");}if(shape.PlaceholderSettings.TypeisPlaceholderType.Subtitle){shape.TextArea=newTextArea($"{DateTime.Now: dddd, MMMM d, yyyy}");}}

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

  FileStreamoutputStream=newFileStream(@"..\..\..\data\my-presentation.pptx",FileMode.Create);presentation.SaveDocument(outputStream);outputStream.Dispose();presentation.ExportToPdf(newFileStream(@"..\..\..\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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