Create a New Presentation

VSTO was developed to let developers build applications that could run inside Microsoft Office. VSTO is COM-based but it’s wrapped inside a .NET object so that it can be used in .NET applications. VSTO needs .NET framework support as well as Microsoft Office CLR-based runtime. Although it can be used for making Microsoft Office add-ins it is nearly impossible to use as a server-side component. It also has serious deployment problems.

Aspose.Slides for Java is a component that can be used to manipulate Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, just like VSTO, but it has several advantages:

• Aspose.Slides contains managed code only and doesn’t require Microsoft Office runtime to be installed.
• It can be used as a client-side component or as a server side component.
• Deployment is easy since Aspose.Slides is contained in a single jar file.

Creating a Presentation

Below are two code examples that illustrate how VSTO and Aspose.Slides for Java can be used to achieve the same goal. The first example is VSTO; the second example uses Aspose.Slides.

VSTO Example

The VSTO output

Aspose.Slides for Java Example

The output from Aspose.Slides