Display power point docs in WinForms app

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What is the best solution to display/integrate and manipulate PowerPoint documents in .NET WinFroms?

You want to be able to edit document in winform or just show slide show? — Renatas M., Sep 07 '11 at 10:27
show slide show and take actions when a slide is clicked, etc — Cornel, Sep 07 '11 at 10:41
I did something familiar few years ago. I exported slides as images and then manipulated them(show next image, show previous, draw on them etc.) — Renatas M., Sep 07 '11 at 10:48
What solution did you used for converting PowerPoint slides in images? — Cornel, Sep 08 '11 at 10:08
try [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2972263/ppt-slides-to-images/2972350#2972350) suggested solution. I don't have code right now and don't remember how I did it in my project :) — Renatas M., Sep 08 '11 at 10:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '11 at 10:25

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Microsoft.Office.Interop.Powerpoint Namespace should be right for you.

For that you must have installed Powerpoint on the developing and executing machine.

answered Sep 07 '11 at 10:25

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 07 '11 at 10:25

once there was the DSOFramer which has been retired, here what MS's folk said in forums:

DSOFramer Control has been retired. DSOFramer was a sample and is not supported. There will be no further updates to DSOFramer and KB 311765 is been taken down. Office was never meant to run in embedded mode. There are many known issues when Office is embedded.

Besides DsoFramer, you can also use the WebBrowser embedded in Winform or ASP.NET and navigate to an Office document. But that is also an embedded using which considered not supported and may cause some known issues.

Best regards, Ji Zhou - MSFT Microsoft Online Community Support

I would try embedding the web browser control and pointing it to the .ppt (or .pps) file and see how it works.

Display power point docs in WinForms app

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