Open and Save Presentation in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

3 Aug 20264 minutes to read

Syncfusion^® PowerPoint is a .NET Core PowerPoint library used to create, read, edit and convert PowerPoint documents programmatically without Microsoft PowerPoint or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can open and save a Presentation in AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Steps to open and save a Presentation in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Step 1: Create a new ASP.NET Core Web App (Model-View-Controller).

Step 2: Create a project name and select the location.

Step 3: Click Create button.

Step 4: Install the Syncfusion.Presentation.Net.Core NuGet package as a reference to your project from NuGet.org.

Starting with v16.2.0.x, if you reference Syncfusion^® assemblies from trial setup or from the NuGet feed, you also have to add “Syncfusion.Licensing” assembly reference and include a license key in your projects. Please refer to this link to know about registering Syncfusion^® license key in your application to use our components.

Step 5: Add a new button in Views/Home/Index.cshtml as shown below.

C#

@{
    Html.BeginForm("CreatePowerPoint", "Home", FormMethod.Get);
    {
        <div>
            <input type="submit" value="Create PowerPoint" style="width:150px;height:27px" />
        </div>
    }
    Html.EndForm();
}

Step 6: Include the following namespaces in HomeController.cs.

C#

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Syncfusion.Presentation;
using System.IO;

Step 7: Add a new action method CreatePowerPoint in HomeController.cs (the class must inherit from Controller) and include the below code snippet to open an existing PowerPoint Presentation from the wwwroot folder.

C#

public IActionResult CreatePowerPoint()
{
    //Open an existing PowerPoint presentation using the file path overload.
    using IPresentation pptxDoc = Presentation.Open(Path.GetFullPath("wwwroot/Data/Input.pptx"));

    //Get the first slide from the PowerPoint presentation.
    ISlide slide = pptxDoc.Slides[0];
    //Get the first shape of the slide.
    IShape shape = slide.Shapes[0] as IShape;
    //Change the text of the shape.
    if (shape.TextBody.Text == "Company History")
        shape.TextBody.Text = "Company Profile";

    //Save the PowerPoint Presentation as stream.
    MemoryStream pptxStream = new();
    pptxDoc.Save(pptxStream);
    pptxStream.Position = 0;
    //Download Powerpoint document in the browser.
    return File(pptxStream, "application/powerpoint", "Result.pptx");
}

Steps to publish to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Before publishing, ensure you have an active AWS account, have installed the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio (from Extensions > Manage Extensions or the AWS download page), and have configured your AWS credentials in the toolkit.

Step 1: Right-click the project and select Publish to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Legacy) option.

Step 2: Select the Deployment Target as Create a new application environment and click Next button.

Step 3: Choose the Environment Name in the dropdown list and the URL will be automatically assigned. Check that the URL is available; if so, click Next. Otherwise, change the URL.

Step 4: Select the t3a.micro instance type from the dropdown list and click Next.

Step 5: Click the Next button to proceed further.

Step 6: Click the Next button.

Step 7: Click the Deploy button to deploy the sample on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Step 8: After changing the status from Updating to Environment is healthy, click the URL.

Step 9: After opening the provided URL, click Create PowerPoint button to download the PowerPoint document.

You can download a complete working sample from GitHub.

By executing the program, you will get the PowerPoint document as follows.

Looking for the full .NET PowerPoint Library component overview, features, pricing, and documentation? Visit the .NET PowerPoint Library page.

See also

• Create a PowerPoint document in AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Open and save a Presentation in AWS
• Open and save a Presentation in AWS Lambda
• Open and save a Presentation in AWS S3 Cloud Storage