Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010

re: Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010

YM_Industries — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:24:59 GMT

<3 YOU! I really needed this!

re: Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010

Kirill Osenkov - MSFT — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:09:51 GMT

Jerry Nixon - could you please contact me or leave a way to contact you? We've implemented your suggestion in Roslyn.

re: Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010

Gunnar — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 09:56:27 GMT

I am running Win7 + VS2010 in Hyper-V virtual server (yeah, SharePoint my love). On host system I am running Windows Live Writer. I am connected to Win7 dev machine using RDC. The problem is - when I copy code from VS2010 to Live Writer then HTML portion of the code seems missing. Plain text and RTF come over RDC nicely. Please fix this issue in next release.

re: Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010

Shiv Kumar — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:57:57 GMT

Great addition! However a Copy as Html option should be provided we we can paste code anywhere like note pad or even other blogs where one doesn't use Live Writer to write blogs or forums where code does not get formatted.

Also some documentation on the "Paste Special" Ctrl+Shift+V, functionality on the Power Tools page would help since this is not very obvious. I've asked a question there with no replies and finally found your blog.

re: Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010

Shiv Kumar — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:56:48 GMT

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Yossu — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:32:43 GMT

Does this work with OneNote 2003? Bob seems to say it does, but I can't get it to work, mainly because ON doesn't have a Paste Special command. Doing a normal paste makes a real mess of the code, breaking a line at every blank space!

re: Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010

Bob — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:27:08 GMT

Thanks for your tools. Now the oneNote can get the colorful code now.

PLEASE clarify the method about how to use it in future.

re: Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010

Kirill Osenkov - MSFT — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:24:12 GMT

Hi Kevin,

thanks for trying HTML Copy out!

It doesn't put the HTML text onto clipboard's text format, otherwise if you'd copy-pasted code from VS to VS, it would accidentally paste HTML, thus making Copy Paste code impossible.

Instead, it leaves a plain text version of the selection on clipboard, but instead puts the rich HTML in a parallel, HTML format. If you paste in Word, and select Paste special, you can select which one to paste: HTML, RTF or plain text.

My tool is only useful to paste into programs that support "Paste Special" - choosing which of the clipboard formats to paste.

Live Writer should work, Word, Outlook, TFS.

I'm working on another release where you'd be able to push a special button to "Copy HTML markup to clipboard as plain text".

Hope this clarifies!

Kirill Osenkov

re: Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010

Kevin Gallagher (Oregon Department of Revenue) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:58:41 GMT

Does not work under my installed VS2010 Ultimate. Tried uninstalled and then reinstalling. No matter I copy code from the IDE and paste into notepad, HomeSite, WeBuilder and simply get the text uncolorized except in MS-Word I get the colorization as without the "Copy To HTML" Will check back in your next release. Any ways thanks for all your efforts!

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re: Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010

Jon — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:35:41 GMT

Nice, but would be even better if it copied the background color as well. I use a dark theme and it fails to set the background color on the pre tag. Not a big deal, I can do it manually but would be nice if it took that in to account.