Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In today’s video, I’m excited to share the latest updates on a PowerPoint add-in that’s transforming animation possibilities within PowerPoint. For anyone who’s wished for more control over shape animations, advanced properties, and effects that go beyond PowerPoint’s built-in options, this video is for you.
This is the third video in our series on this PowerPoint VSTO Add-in, designed to enable advanced shape and animation manipulation. You’ll see how I’ve customized animations, adding unique controls like ease-in and ease-out, cubic styles, auto-reverse with a delay, and repeat settings. These features are unavailable in PowerPoint by default, but we’ve developed them through custom COM interop and WPF integrations.
Advanced Animation Manager: Watch as I demonstrate my custom Animation Manager, which introduces a new level of control over shape animations. From adding delays before auto-reverses to adjusting repeat durations, I’m showing options that you won’t find anywhere in PowerPoint.
WebView2 Integration in PowerPoint: We’ve integrated WebView2, allowing us to eventually use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript within PowerPoint slides. Imagine the possibilities for rendering dynamic web content, creating interactive presentations, and controlling animations through JavaScript directly within PowerPoint.
WPF Storyboards for Animation: As an alternative to complex custom coding for each frame of an animation, we’re exploring WPF Storyboards. Storyboards are a powerful feature in WPF, and by leveraging them, we can create complex animations with a streamlined workflow. I’m excited to see how Storyboards can simplify and enhance the animation experience.
Overcoming PowerPoint’s Limitations: If you’ve ever wanted more flexibility with PowerPoint animations, this add-in might just be the solution. I’ll show you examples of advanced animation sequences, pushing beyond what’s possible with the standard PowerPoint object model.
As we push the boundaries of PowerPoint’s capabilities, our goal is to create an intuitive, powerful animation tool that anyone can use. This is part of a larger vision to render web content as a COM object within PowerPoint, blending the flexibility of web technologies with the familiarity of PowerPoint.
🎬 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more videos on how we’re transforming the way we interact with PowerPoint and making advanced animations possible. Let me know in the comments if there’s a specific animation or feature you’d like to see next!
In today’s video, I’m excited to share the latest updates on a PowerPoint add-in that’s transforming animation possibilities within PowerPoint. For anyone who’s wished for more control over shape animations, advanced properties, and effects that go beyond PowerPoint’s built-in options, this video is for you.
This is the third video in our series on this PowerPoint VSTO Add-in, designed to enable advanced shape and animation manipulation. You’ll see how I’ve customized animations, adding unique controls like ease-in and ease-out, cubic styles, auto-reverse with a delay, and repeat settings. These features are unavailable in PowerPoint by default, but we’ve developed them through custom COM interop and WPF integrations.
Advanced Animation Manager: Watch as I demonstrate my custom Animation Manager, which introduces a new level of control over shape animations. From adding delays before auto-reverses to adjusting repeat durations, I’m showing options that you won’t find anywhere in PowerPoint.
WebView2 Integration in PowerPoint: We’ve integrated WebView2, allowing us to eventually use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript within PowerPoint slides. Imagine the possibilities for rendering dynamic web content, creating interactive presentations, and controlling animations through JavaScript directly within PowerPoint.
WPF Storyboards for Animation: As an alternative to complex custom coding for each frame of an animation, we’re exploring WPF Storyboards. Storyboards are a powerful feature in WPF, and by leveraging them, we can create complex animations with a streamlined workflow. I’m excited to see how Storyboards can simplify and enhance the animation experience.
Overcoming PowerPoint’s Limitations: If you’ve ever wanted more flexibility with PowerPoint animations, this add-in might just be the solution. I’ll show you examples of advanced animation sequences, pushing beyond what’s possible with the standard PowerPoint object model.
As we push the boundaries of PowerPoint’s capabilities, our goal is to create an intuitive, powerful animation tool that anyone can use. This is part of a larger vision to render web content as a COM object within PowerPoint, blending the flexibility of web technologies with the familiarity of PowerPoint.
🎬 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more videos on how we’re transforming the way we interact with PowerPoint and making advanced animations possible. Let me know in the comments if there’s a specific animation or feature you’d like to see next!
