# devexpress-office-file-api-presentation

> Claude/Codex skill by [@devexpress](https://omgskills.com/library/devexpress/index.md) · 66 stars · Updated 2026-10-19

Build .NET applications with the DevExpress Presentation API for creating, reading, modifying, and exporting PowerPoint presentations programmatically without Microsoft Office. Use when working with .pptx files, slides, shapes, text, tables, slide masters and layouts, themes, slide backgrounds, notes, headers/footers, or exporting presentations to PDF. Also use when someone mentions "DevExpress Presentation", "Presentation API", "DevExpress.Docs.Presentation", "create PowerPoint in C\#", "pptx automation .NET", "merge presentations", or asks about any PowerPoint/presentation processing with DevExpress. Covers .NET.

Tags: agent-plugins, agent-skills, ai, ai-coding-agent, devexpress, devextreme, skills

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/DevExpress/agent-skills /tmp/agent-skills && ln -s /tmp/agent-skills/plugins/dx-office-file-api/skills/devexpress-office-file-api-presentation ~/.claude/skills/devexpress-office-file-api-presentation
```

## From README

DevExpress Presentation API The Presentation API is a cross-platform .NET library for creating, loading, modifying, saving, and printing PowerPoint presentations in code — without requiring Microsoft Office. It supports PPTX, PPTM, POTX, and POTM formats and can export to PDF. You can use it in console, desktop, and web applications targeting .NET 8+.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/devexpress/agent-skills/plugins/dx-office-file-api/skills/devexpress-office-file-api-presentation/
- GitHub: https://github.com/DevExpress/agent-skills
- Author: [@devexpress](https://omgskills.com/library/devexpress/index.md)

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