Open and save Presentation in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

13 Jun 20244 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 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.

NOTE

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Step 5: Add a new button in the 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 Syncfusion.Presentation;

Step 7: Add a new action method CreatePowerPoint in HomeController.cs and include the below code snippet to open an existing Presentation in AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

C#

using FileStream fileStreamPath = new(Path.GetFullPath("wwwroot/Data/Input.pptx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);
//Open an existing PowerPoint presentation.
using IPresentation pptxDoc = Presentation.Open(fileStreamPath);

Step 8: Add below code snippet demonstrates accessing a shape from a slide and changing the text within it.

C#

//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";

Step 9: Add below code example to save the PowerPoint Presentation.

C#

//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 as AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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 assign and check the URL is available, if available click next otherwise change the URL.

Step 4: Select the instance type in t3a.micro 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.

Click here to explore the rich set of Syncfusion PowerPoint Library (Presentation) features.