ASPOSE.SLIDES FOR .NET · ON-PREMISES LIBRARY · NO MICROSOFT OFFICE REQUIRED
PowerPoint files, from C#.
Aspose.Slides for .NET creates, edits, converts and renders PowerPoint and OpenDocument presentations from managed code. One NuGet package, running in your own process on Windows, Linux, macOS or a container — no Office install, no COM automation, no display server.
- CLI
dotnet add package Aspose.Slides.NET- Console
Install-Package Aspose.Slides.NET- Assembly
Aspose.Slides.dll
.NET Framework, .NET Core and later, Mono and Xamarin.Android. Callable over COM interop from PHP, VBScript, Delphi and C++ on Windows. No Office, no GDI, no display server.
Prefer not to host it yourself? The same work is available as a hosted REST API through Aspose.Slides Cloud.
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Shape types and chart types, each a real object that PowerPoint still recognises and lets a person edit.
13 → 12
Presentation formats read and written, including the pre-2007 binary
.pptcontainer and OpenDocument.odp, plus 9 further export targets.1
NuGet package. No native prerequisites to install alongside it.
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Microsoft Office installs, GDI dependencies and X displays needed. A small Linux container is enough.
Five things people actually write
All examples on GitHub →Each sample is the whole program, C# as shipped. Pick the job on the left.
using Aspose.Slides;
using Aspose.Slides.Export;
using var presentation = new Presentation("quarterly-review.pptx");
presentation.Save("review.pdf", SaveFormat.Pdf);
presentation.Save("review.html", SaveFormat.Html);
presentation.Save("review.tiff", SaveFormat.Tiff);using var presentation = new Presentation("deck.pptx");
foreach (var slide in presentation.Slides)
{
using var image = slide.GetImage(2f, 2f);
image.Save($"slide-{slide.SlideNumber}.png", ImageFormat.Png);
}using Aspose.Slides.Charts;
using var presentation = new Presentation();
var slide = presentation.Slides[0];
var chart = slide.Shapes.AddChart(ChartType.ClusteredColumn, 60, 60, 620, 400);
var cells = chart.ChartData.ChartDataWorkbook;
chart.ChartData.Categories.Add(cells.GetCell(0, 1, 0, "Q1"));
chart.ChartData.Categories.Add(cells.GetCell(0, 2, 0, "Q2"));
chart.ChartData.Series.Add(cells.GetCell(0, 0, 1, "Revenue"), chart.Type);
presentation.Save("report.pptx", SaveFormat.Pptx);using var presentation = new Presentation("board-deck.pptx");
presentation.ProtectionManager.Encrypt("s3cret");
var options = new PdfOptions { Password = "s3cret" };
presentation.Save("board-deck.pdf", SaveFormat.Pdf, options);using var target = new Presentation("master.pptx");
using var source = new Presentation("appendix.pptx");
foreach (var slide in source.Slides)
target.Slides.AddClone(slide);
target.Save("combined.pptx", SaveFormat.Pptx);Browse by operation
Each operation has its own page, listing the formats it covers with a code sample for each.
What goes in, what comes out
Read in only
Other content read inplaced into a presentation rather than opened as one
- HTML
- raster image
Read onlyno writer in the API
- PPT95
Aspose.Slides
12 formats read and written — presentation files, proven by writing each one and reading it back.
- FODP
- ODP
- OTP
- POT
- POTM
- POTX
- PPS
- PPSM
- PPSX
- PPT
- PPTM
- PPTX
Written out only
Written onlyexport targets, not presentation files
- GIF
- HTML
- HTML5
- MD
- SWF
- TIFF
- XML
- XPS
Slide imagesrendered from a slide
- BMP
- EMF
- GIF
- JPEG
- PNG
- SVG
- TIFF
Capabilities, one line each
Everything here is supported in the .NET build. Where a grey note follows, the capability is delivered through a separate product or comes with a stated limit.
As of 2026-08-18. 49 presentation SDKs and services surveyed. Next re-test: November 2026.
- ✓Reads OOXML presentations
- ✓Writes .pptx
- ✓Reads legacy binary PowerPoint
- ✓Writes legacy binary .ppt
- ✓Reads OpenDocument presentations
- ✓Writes .odp
- ✓Exports to PDF
- ✓Imports PDF into a presentation
- ✓Exports slides to raster images
- ✓Exports to HTML
- ✓Extracts text / Markdown / JSON
- ✓Runs entirely on the customer's own infrastructure
- ✓Offered as a hosted API the customer calls — through Aspose.Slides Cloud, a separate product
- ✓Runs without a Microsoft Office / LibreOffice installation
- ✓Works with no outbound network access
- ✓Create from nothing
- ✓Open, modify, save back
- ✓Preserve untouched content
- ✓Merge or append presentations
- ✓Slide thumbnails
- ✓Create charts
- ✓Published performance numbers — one published capacity figure, no benchmark suite
- ✓Air-gapped install and licensing
- ✓.NET · Java / JVM · Python · C / C++
- ✓JavaScript / TypeScript / Node · PHP
- ✓Android, SharePoint and JasperReports integrations
- ✓Language-agnostic REST/HTTP API — through Aspose.Slides Cloud, a separate product
- ✓Public API reference and guides
- ✓Runnable sample projects
- ✓Paid support and escalation
Runs where your code already runs
Managed code and one package, so the library deploys with the application — onto build agents, containers and servers unchanged.
.NET Framework
Classic desktop, ASP.NET and Windows service workloads.
WINDOWS
.NET Core and .NET 5+
Cross-platform applications, containers and cloud functions.
WINDOWS · LINUX · MACOS
Mono
Supported for non-Windows runtimes where Mono hosts the application.
LINUX · MACOS
Xamarin.Android
Presentation handling inside mobile applications.
ANDROID
COM interop
Callable from PHP, VBScript, Delphi and C++ on Windows.
WINDOWS
Same object model on other platforms: Java, Python, C++, Node.js, Android, PHP, SharePoint and JasperReports.All high-code APIs →
Start with the trial, license when you ship
The trial is the full API. It applies an evaluation watermark when a presentation is opened or saved and replaces extracted text with an evaluation notice, so you can test the formats you actually care about before you talk to anyone. A temporary licence lifts both for 30 days.
If you don't want a library
Aspose.Slides Cloud is a hosted REST API for loading, creating, editing and converting presentations.
No-code apps
In use
The product worked as advertised, the documentation was easy to follow, and the support forums were all the help we needed. The final solution that we deployed has exceeded our initial expectations by a great deal.
— BRUCE BRIEN · STRATASCOPE INC, USA