C# PowerPoint without Open Office SDK and Microsoft Office Interop

Question

I have a big problem - i must create application which will be create PowerPoint file with images from folder in the slides. It will be part of project which use Framework 2.0(OpenOfficeXML SDK 2.0 require 3.5). And we cannot use Microsoft Office Interop. How i may solve this problem?

Answer 1

1) You can purchase a 3rd party library. These guys claim to support all the way back to .NET 1.1: http://www.aspose.com/.net/powerpoint-component

2) You can spend a ton of hours reading up on the raw file format and create the file by manually writing out the appropriate XML and zipping it up.