PowerPoint presentation played in windows store app

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I need to play a PowerPoint presentation embedded as an asset in a windows store app. I downloaded the Visual Studio Tools for Visual Studio 2012 and tried to use the old school Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint package but I stumbled upon the following error:

Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {91493441-5A91-11CF-8700-00AA0060263B} using CoCreateInstanceFromApp failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)). Please make sure your COM object is in the allowed list of CoCreateInstanceFromApp

So it seems that windows store apps cannot call these types of COM objects. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br205757.aspx

Is there any API available for windows store apps to show a pptx?

Thank you.

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windows-8windows-runtimepowerpointwindows-store-appsoffice-interop

1 Answers

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No, there is currently no API to show a pptx within a Windows Store app.

Some workarounds might be:

  • Launch the pptx in PowerPoint (outside of your Windows Store app) from your app. Here is how to launch the default app for a file (PowerPoint is the default app for a .pptx).
  • Convert the pptx slides to images (either beforehand if this is a static PowerPoint deck you are showing, or call a webservice that can do this if you need to support receiving and displaying new PowerPoint decks)