VisualPoint lets you show PowerPoint presentations from inside Visual Studio.

This is the 0.8 Release and contains all the basic elements needed to automate a presentation.

For an example presentation and solution download the zip file here.

The following functionality is available in release 0.1:

0.1

0.2

Added the capability to add automatic actions to slides. These are executed when the slide is opened.
The first action is the autoamtic opening of project items. Set the name of the project, folder and file name.

0.3

0.4

Added three actions, Close File, Select Text and Write Text.
Added selection of Action run time. This can be at the start or end of a slide or at a given slide animation

0.5

0.6

0.7:

0.8:

0.9

Fixed an issue with events not firing correctly. Please notice that the last animation event doesn't fire anymore. The current workaround is to add an additional animation to each slide.

Todo:

Bugs

Presentation window shows a message "Unable to
display inactive document"
The window is not always shown correctly after resizing
PowerPoint is not shutdown correctly and stay open in the background. Current workaround is to shut it down via the Task Manager