Office Interoperation vs Process control

[Andrew McNab]

I would like to control power point slide show presentations from an
application. The presentations already exist and just need to be played. I
currently do it using a process and using the verb "Show" to run a slideshow
from my application. To my knowledge, I cannot retrieve any information about
the presentation properties for example, number of slides, slide duration
before automaticically going to the next slide.

I would like these pieces of information so that I can close a particulat
presentation precisely at the end of the show and possibly start another one.
I recently came across interoperation for office applications with C# .net
applications. I found I could get all the information i needed using a
PowerPoint object and surfing through the collections of a particular file.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a method or means to start the slide show
through my application using the interoperator between office and C# .net. I
was wondering if anyone had gone down this path or could point me to
technical articles about office interoperation for powerpoint in particular.
Any help would be awesome thanks.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Andrew,

This is about the best info I could find....

Event Generator 1.2
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 and later versions support a lot of events. The
handler for these events can only reside in addins. The free Event Generator
addin redirects these events to the presentations.

http://officeone.mvps.org/eventgen/eventgen.html

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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