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Accessing Powerpoint

I have developed an application that opens a powerpoint template, inserts
data from our database into it, and displays it to the user. It works great
on my local development box. Problem is, when I run this from our server, I
only get a blank window, not the powerpoint application showing the chart. I
thought installing the Office 2K3 interoperability tools sdk on the server
would be enough. Is that not the case? Does my server need Office, or at
least powerpoint, installed?
Dec 19 '07 #1
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"Wannabe" <Wa*****@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:9D**********************************@microsof t.com...
This is our only option at the moment,
Can't help that... Aspose really isn't very expensive, and it will solve
your problem in about half an hour...
This is on our intranet server, with no more than two or three
users at any one time, if that makes a difference.
It doesn't... Read the MSDN article again...

Here's further information:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/288367. Note specifically:
"risky and unstable", "stop responding", "corrupt data", "crash the calling
process", "bring down the web server" etc...

I'm really not making this up...
Why would Microsoft offer the ability to hook into Powerpoint if they
recommend against it?
Because it's simply not designed for remote automation on a server because
of its threading model - desktop automation works perfectly...
Here is the code that does this (and one section for inserting one
textbox):
<snip>

Makes no difference what your code is - it's just not designed to work in
this environment...

I suggest you show the two MSDN articles to your boss...
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

Dec 19 '07 #2

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