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VSTO, or Visual Studio Tools for Office, or Microsoft Visual Studio Tools is part of Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET tools suite and supports the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is used by developers to write code connecting Microsoft Office Word, Excel and Outlook applications. Developers using VSTO can employ C# or Visual Basic languages. It is an alternative to Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA.<\/p>\n
Aspose.Slides for .NET is a unique PowerPoint\u00ae management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manipulate PowerPoint documents without using Microsoft PowerPoint.<\/p>\n
Aspose.Slides for .NET is the first and only .NET component that provides functionality to manage PowerPoint documents within your own applications. As with all Aspose .NET components, Aspose.Slides is written in managed C#, incredibly priced and lightning fast.<\/p>\n
The developers looking for file format libraries may need to walk through the features provided by the libraries available on the market. Mainly, two factors are considered when choosing an option:<\/p>\n
If you are a .NET developer looking for faster,easy and light-weight file format library to process files, you may need to compare VSTO(Visual Studio tool for Office) with Aspose. In this case, this project will help you to compare features and code in both libraries.<\/p>\n
One or more of the following editions of Visual Studio Tools for Office:<\/p>\n
Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP<\/p>\n
only .NET framework 2.0 or greater.<\/p>\n
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To open the project you need to download and install the latest version of Aspose.Slides for .NET from here<\/a> and include it in the project.<\/p>\n We offer free support. Anyone who uses our product, whether they have bought them or are using an evaluation, deserves our full attention and respect.<\/p>\n You can log any issues or suggestions related to Aspose .NET for VSTO using any of the following platforms:<\/p>\n Comparison code for Aspose.Slides for .NET and VSTO source code is available on major social coding websites listed below.Developers are encouraged to download the source code to migrate from VSTO to Aspose.Slides as per their requirements.<\/p>\n You can get the latest source code from one of the following locations.<\/p>\n Please follow these simple steps to get started<\/p>\n This section includes the following topics<\/p>\n OpenXML SDK is a .NET SDK from Microsoft in order to process Microsoft Office 2007 and above file formats. These file formats are basically zipped packages and the Open XML SDK for Office simplifies the task of manipulating Open XML packages and the underlying Open XML schema elements within a package. The classes in the Open XML SDK encapsulate many common tasks that developers perform on Open XML packages, so that you can perform complex operations with lines of code.<\/p>\n Once you have installed the Open XML SDK 2.5, open your existing project or application in Visual Studio, or create a new project or application. Then, in your project or application, add references to the following components:<\/p>\n Aspose.Slides for .NET is a unique PowerPoint\u00ae management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manipulate PowerPoint documents without using Microsoft PowerPoint.<\/p>\n Aspose.Slides for .NET is the first and only .NET component that provides functionality to manage PowerPoint documents within your own applications. As with all Aspose .NET components, Aspose.Slides is written in managed C#, incredibly priced and lightning fast.<\/p>\n The developers looking for file format libraries may need to walk through the features provided by the libraries available on the market. Mainly, two factors are considered when choosing an option:<\/p>\n If you are a .NET developer looking for faster,easy and light-weight file format library to process files, you may need to compare VSTO(Visual Studio tool for Office) with Aspose. In this case, this project will help you to compare features and code in both libraries.<\/p>\n One or more of the following editions of Visual Studio Tools for Office:<\/p>\n You can download the latest code at:<\/p>\n To open the project you need to download and install the latest version of Aspose.Slides for .NET from here<\/a> and include it in the project.<\/p>\n We offer free support. Anyone who uses our product, whether they have bought them or are using an evaluation, deserves our full attention and respect.<\/p>\n You can log any issues or suggestions related to Aspose .NET for OpenXML using any of the following platforms:<\/p>\n Comparison code for Aspose.Slides for .NET and OpenXML source code is available on major social coding websites listed below.Developers are encouraged to download the source code to migrate from OpenXML to Aspose.Slides as per their requirements.<\/p>\n You can get the latest source code from one of the following locations.<\/p>\n Please follow these simple steps to get started<\/p>\n This section includes the following topics<\/p>\nSupport, Extend and Contribute<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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