I have a commandbar model which automates PowerPoint. I recently faced a strange problem that when PowerPoint is opened through my application, and the data is being loaded through my application to populate the menu.If a user right clicks on PowerPoint I get the error message: Call was rejected by callee powerpoint
How do I resolve this? I'm using Office 2003/2007 and VB.NET for office automation.
I have been pulling my hair out trying to fix this.
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I have a simple form, with a button that invokes some Powerpoint automation (I am using VB 2008; Office 2007 is installed on the machine). Powerpoint starts up properly, the presentation closes, but...Powerpoint stays "up" (does not quit). When my application eventually closes, powerpoint does close, but I would like for it to properly close right after the automation completes.
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Imports Office = Microsoft.Office.Core
Imports Graph = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Graph
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I have a VB 2008 Forms application which does Powerpoint automation.I am opening Powerpoint in a minimized window from within my app and am trying to periodically put update messages in a textbox on my main form while the automation is running (it takes a few minutes to complete), but my form window does not want to show these messages until the powerpoint operations are finished.It seems as if I need to force a window refresh or something on my windows form, but I'm unclear how to do that. Below is some code that I'm using that illustrates what I'm trying to do.When I run it, "Step One / Step Two / Step Three" do not show up on my textbox until after the Powerpoint automations are over.[code]
View 1 RepliesI have been searching and trying for quite some time now but did not yet find the right way to solve my problem.Here is what I want to do:- open powerpoint with a file (an disable the UI of my app while it is opened)- make some changes to this file- save it with a new name- get notice when Powerpoint is closed (either by my app once the automatic changes are done or if the user quits Powerpoint)- enable UI once Powerpoint is closedThe notice is my problem. Is there an easy way (other than timers that check the process list) to get notice of when my started Powerpoint-Process is closed/quit?
View 1 RepliesHere's the user environment: Microsoft 2003 Web Server Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2005 (VB.Net) Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 We are attempting to use Interop in a web service to update PowerPoint presentations. It worked great on my laptop, but when we migrated to the server, we encountered issues.Basically, it started taking 10 or more minutes to open up the presentation, which means we usually time out.
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I have created an addin specifically for Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 that will cature any save attempts made by the end-user. The purpose is it analyse where the file is saved to and to take a copy of the saved file for version control.I have created a module level object mobjPPT which contains my PowerPoint application object and have assigned the PresentationBeforeSave event to my sub 'PowerPointSave'. Everything works up until the point it hits the 'Pres.SaveAs' line and throws the following error:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Presentation (unknown member) : Failed.
at Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.PresentationClass.SaveAs(String FileName, PpSaveAsFileType FileFormat, MsoTriState EmbedTrueTypeFonts)
at PPTSave.Connect.PowerPointSave(Presentation Pres, Boolean& Cancel)
I have tried calling SaveAs on the mobjPPT object instead but get the same results.Here is the offending item:
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Private Sub PowerPointSave(ByVal Pres As Presentation, ByRef Cancel As Boolean)
Dim dlgResult As DialogResult = Nothing
Dim dlgFilter As Microsoft.Office.Core.FileDialogFilters = Nothing
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how to set a powerpoint presentation as the powerpoint.application.activepresentation? In the program below, when the form is loading, it will open 2 powerpoint files (Test1.ppt and Test2.ppt). After Test2.ppt is opened, it will be the activepresentation because it is opened last.What I am trying to do is when I press button1, it will set Test1.ppt as activepresentation so that when I press button4, it will show me "C:Test1.ppt".The same also goes to button2 making Test2.ppt as activepresentation..But what I get is, no matter how many times i press button1, Test2.ppt is always the activepresentation.[code]
View 1 RepliesI have a simple program made in VB .NET 2003 with a few functions. I want to call these function from another application with automation.How can i do this?
View 3 RepliesI have a vb.net app that retreives data from a MS SQL 2005 database. I have it creating an Excel 2003 workbook. In a cell of a Worksheet, I want to "Call" or make active my vb.net App via a key combination (Alt->V) and have the workbook/worksheet pass the Row number / Column to the vb.net app that will get the data and post back to this Cell. This combination (vb.net and Excel) is my report builder app. So I want to go back and forth between vb.net and Excel, passing the needed data from each. How can this be done?
View 19 RepliesI'm trying to copy a Range from Excel and Paste the information in powerpoint in either the HTML or the default format, however, I am having some difficulties. I am able to get the code to work for pasting the Range as an OLE Object but nothing else. The problem with doing this is that having the embedded excel documents in the powerpoint makes the file extremely large and unstable. I just need to be able to paste the information without the embedded information where it is editable (so, not as a bitmap or picture).
With ppt2Slide
Sheets(index2).Activate
Range("CP12:CT" & RangeIndex2).Copy
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I have a subroutine that passes several variables to the called subroutine.I want one of the variables to be updated by the called subroutine and then check for the change in the calling subroutine. My code works fine except that the variable I am checking
calling Sub routine
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Public Sub ProjectName_Exit(Cancel As Integer)
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I have a slight problem , using vb 2008 i have written some code that checks the current datetime on the computer. This gives me the answer in the format mon, tues etc. what i now want to do is to use that to call a spreadsheet dependent on the day of the week. here is my code so far
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Dim TIME As DateTime = DateTime.Now
Dim FORMAT As String = " ddd "
TextBox1.Text = TIME.ToString(FORMAT)
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Now i have tried the private sub eg SATS() on a separate button and it works perfectly . so it appears to be that the sub is not been called. I think it is probably a syntax where the datetime answer is not been recognised, in that textbox1.text = "sat" is not the same as datetime = sat .
i am developing one automate application for tht i hav done some coding i dont know how to proceed further can any one guide me if possible? [code] I am using SHDocVw for IE. Now i need to know how to do. [code]
View 4 RepliesI have written an automation addin in Excel with C# (addin.dll). To use the addin, I need to 1. register it using "regasm /codebase c:...addin.dll"2. select in ExcelOptionsAddInsExcel AddinsAutomation the respective addin from the list
I would like to automatize 1) and 2), so that the user just needs to run an exe-file in order to use the addin. 1) should be no problem, but how can one automatize 2)?
Ok basically what I need to do is the following:Read FirstExcelDoc (attached)For every row in that: Retrieve data from sql server db based on info in the Orange columns of FirstExcelDoc Let's say I retrieved data elements A, B, C, D, and E from sql server. Then I need to enter those same data elements A, B, and C in another excel spreadsheet (which has formulas etc) After inputing A, B, and C in that spreadsheet, read a couple of calculated fields and compare those results to data elements D and E retrieved originally from SQL Server DB. Finally, output the results in the Blue columns of the FirstExcelDoc spreadsheet for that row.Loop through and do the same thing for row 2 of the FirstExcelDoc and keep on until you see "END TEST" in the FirstExcelDoc.
I'm looking for a method of doing this efficiently. I have read several articles over the past few days as well as those from Mike R. but just need some direction to get started on this.To start of I'm looking for whether to read the entire FirstExcelDoc spreadsheet or just read the info for first policy number(2nd row) and process it and write out the blue column info for that row and then loop through and come back and read the second policy number (3rd row) etc... Please attach a code snippet for either way of reading the data.
I'm using excel via interop in application.Sometimes users kill application that created excel instance and that results in excel instance sitting in memory without any chance of disposing it.First I tried to tackle this using ROT(running object table) looks like not all instances of excel are registered there.Than I tried to somehow mark excel process after it is started via interop.[code]This works as long as excel is visible but in my case excel window is invisible.All I need is to somehow mark process that started via automation with the parent PID, so that later I can kill it if parent does not exist.
View 19 RepliesI have successfully automated a PowerPoint Metrics presentation with VB.Net. However, since there were many complicated calculations, it took quite some time to make the 120+ slide presentation - so I recently tried to revamp the application to be multi-threaded.
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I've got VS2008 and Office2010, but I don't have Office2007. Therefore, I have the Word14 Object Library but not the Word12 Object Library. Will the code that I create for Office2010 automation also work where clients only have Office2007 or will they have to upgrade their office suites?
View 1 RepliesWe have a vb program which is run on our server by scheduled task every day. The program opens about 30 excel files, refreshes the data connections, pivot tables and then saves the document in another location.
This may run fine for a couple days but sooner or later the process starts crashing, usually with this error: RPC_E_SERVERFAULT.
My question is, Is it expected that continually opening/closing/refreshing workbooks will inevitably cause the Excel object to crash at some point.
I'm having an issue where my excel.exe process doesn't close until I close my .net application. I'd like to avoid using Process.Kill() if at all possible.
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Private Sub WriteRowsToXls(ByVal rows As DataRowCollection, ByVal xlsPath As String, ByVal showStatus As Boolean, Optional ByVal AddTotals As Boolean = True)
Dim xlsApp As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application
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This method references a couple of other methods I use for repeated formatting tasks, I'll include those methods below. (I added the FinalReleaseComObject into the other methods after reading Mike's thread but the issue persists)
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Private Sub SetRangeValidation(ByVal rng As Range)
With rng.Validation
.Delete()
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Method SetRangeAllBorders does about the same as these other methods but my post is too long to add it. The only other things not shown in these code snippets are a few string variable that are defined in the class, studentWS, studentsWSPW, paymentsWS and paymentsWSPW My App creates an instance of the class, loads some data, runs the method above, and then sets the class to nothing. I'm using .NET 3.5 automating Excel 10
I wrote a simple Automation Addin using VB.NET and .NET 4 and want to distribute it's dll to a
computer with xp sp2 and Office 2007 (Excel 2007) without I install .net on that computer, is it
possible?
This might seem a ridiculous question but I just want to make 100% sure before I start committing any funds to software purchases. Can I use VB2008to develop automation routines to control Office2010 applications or must I absolutely use VB2010 to do so?I ask this because I installed an Office 2010 pro on my station which already has VB2008 and I do not have any Word14 reference in the COM section of the list of references...
View 1 Repliesare there special code can help me to open PowerPoint 2007 slide and show it ?
View 14 RepliesI Want To create Animation Project like powerpoint In .net(vb.net).how to do the effects and what are the controls and components needed.
View 1 RepliesI have developed a small application to call several powerpoint presentations. The user will enter the powerpoint number and the powerpoint will be shown in Viewshow form. However this is not the case. The powerpoints are showing in the normal powerpoint form where the users can edit the texts in the presentation even though the powerpoint presentation are saved as viewshow. Please help with the code to display powerpoint in VIEWSHOW form:(;(If this is displayed in a form is fine, part my working code is as shown below;
Imports PowerPoint = Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint
Imports Office = Microsoft.Office.Core
Imports Graph = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Graph
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I am using Visual Basic Express Edition 2008 and Office 2007
View 3 RepliesHow do I check to see if a user has Powerpoint 2007 or 2010 in the autorun for a CD, and download a reader if he does not? Can this be done in a VB script, or do I need to write a program to do this. My initial attempts tried using Fileinfo, but VB script does not recognise this class. This needs to be run on any user computer.
View 2 RepliesI am a graphic designer and not even close to being a programmer. I have to make a DVD that has a powerpoint file on it. What I would like is that when the user puts the DVD in the drive, it will automatically open up a launch window. The launch window will contain a background image and the icon to launch the powerpoint file will be the clients logo.
View 3 RepliesI'm currently working with PowerPoint in VB.NET and having a bit of trouble getting a slide to have an individual background. Using the SlideMaster method changes all slide in the presentation and I want only one to be affected
PS Using the Background.Fill.UserPicture method doesn't seem to be working, but I'm not sure why...