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Nixie
Nixie

Reputation: 637

Easy creation/updating of Office Open XML Charts (PowerPoint preferred)

Does anybody know Office-independent .NET components supporting creation/updating full-fledged office open xml charts from different types of documents (PowerPoint preferred) in a couple of lines of code.

An example from MSDN How to: Insert a Chart into a Spreadsheet Document does it in a difficult way (as far as I can understand I need to create all those child objects like axes explicitly), though many components reading/writing Excel 2007 charts allow creation of charts in a few lines of code, implicity creating child objects (axes, labels, tick marks, etc).

Aspose.Slides.Pptx doesn't seem to provide a deep-chart edition as well (like changing chart type, etc)

Though PowerPoint is preferred, solutions and ideas for other Office documents (like Word and Excel) which could be ported to PowerPoint are welcomed as well.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2690

Answers (1)

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 603

Nixie, personally I'd stick with the OpenXML SDK v2
see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6E744E5-36E9-45F5-8D8C-331DF206E0D0&displaylang=en

There is a bit of a learning curve, but once you get through that, I feel you'll have more control. You'll also need some good xml skills.

Tip: Use the Document Reflector (part of the SDK). It is extremely useful.

Upvotes: 1

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