Color-Coded Source code in blogs

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Michael Swanson — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 04:11:00 GMT

I'll admit that it was me who asked, and I'm embarassed to say that I never thought of trying something so simple. I wrote a whole client to call the ShowCode Web Service (http://tripleasp.net/Services/ShowCode.asmx), but I had issues with the formatting when I tried to post it to .Text. Brad's method works perfectly, and I thank him for the tip. Genius!

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Jeff Atwood — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 04:31:00 GMT

Your example completes me.

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Dave Donaldson — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 04:56:00 GMT

Your code shows up nicely color-coded in the browser, but not in SharpReader. SharpReader displays your code in the same format as your normal text. Didn't know if you knew that or not.

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Xavier Pacheco — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 05:03:00 GMT

I use a tool called Get Colouring!. It generates the html body from a source file and knows about several different languages. Takes a bit longer but I think it looks really nice. See: www.xavierpacheco.com/xlog for an example.

VS 2005 Express anche per bloggare...

Di .NET e di altre amenita' — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:10:00 GMT

VS 2005 Express anche per bloggare...

Di .NET e di altre amenita' — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:10:00 GMT

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Drazen Dotlic — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:10:00 GMT

Hey,

what a coincidence. I have just recently released a free utility called Colorizer that does full parsing and coloring of C# code, spitting out HTML perfect for blog entries, including collapsing/expanding of #region blocks.
I wrote a short article on how it was done with a demo and a free download.
For those interested: http://drazen.dotlic.name/weblog/articles/182.aspx

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

nil4 — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:57:00 GMT

Try Colorer at http://colorer.sf.net/

You can get coloured HTML at
http://colorer.sourceforge.net/php/

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Mike Parsons — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:20:00 GMT

Hey Brad,

Here is a VS.Net Macro that I use ... just select the code and run the macro

Sub FormatSourceCode()

Dim oOLEObject As Type
Dim oWord As Object

'Create a Temp File
Dim TempFile As String = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEMP") & "\" & System.Guid.NewGuid.ToString & ".htm"

'Get the Selected Code
Dim selection As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection()

'Nothing selected
If selection.Text = "" Then
MsgBox("No Code Selected!")
Exit Sub
End If

'Copy the selected code to clipboard
selection.Copy()

'Instantiate Word to Achieve HTML Code Formatting
oOLEObject = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Word.Document")
oWord = Activator.CreateInstance(oOLEObject)
oWord.ActiveWindow.Selection.PasteAndFormat(0)
'oWord.ActiveWindow.Selection.WholeStory()
'oWord.ActiveWindow.Selection.Copy()
oWord.SaveAs(TempFile, 8)
oWord.Close()
oWord = Nothing
oOLEObject = Nothing

'Get the Formatted HTML Code From Temp Word File
Dim oFile As New System.IO.FileInfo(TempFile)
Dim oFileStream As New System.IO.FileStream(TempFile, IO.FileMode.Open, IO.FileAccess.Read)
Dim oStream As New System.IO.StreamReader(oFileStream)
Dim szContent As String = oStream.ReadToEnd()

'Add our custom comment stuff here
szContent = szContent.Replace("<body ", "<body nowrap ")
oStream.Close()
oFileStream.Close()

'View The HTML File
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(TempFile)

'Nuke the Temp file
'oFile.Delete()
End Sub
End Module

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Jose Luis Manners — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:52:00 GMT

Brad,

I do exactly the same thing you do except that I always add a gray background before pasting the code into my blog, like in this post:

http://blogs.geekdojo.net/jmanners/archive/2004/09/27/3226.aspx

You can do this directly in Word by selecting Format-->Borders and Shading-->Shading (tab). I normally pick the third gray shade from left to right. But I love macros so I think I gonna try Mike Parsons' solution as well.

RE: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

nospamplease75@yahoo.com (Haacked) — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:41:00 GMT

I'm partial to <a target="_new" href="http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/">http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/</a>. The WORD technique produces ugly and often non-compliant HTML. The manoli site produces clean html and CSS... In fact, it provides a separate CSS file so you don't have to include the inline CSS.

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

haacked — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:16:00 GMT

I never liked the HTML output from MS Word. So I typically use http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/ which produces HTML and CSS.

It even provides a CSS file if you don't want inline CSS everytime you post code.

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Cory Smith — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:17:00 GMT

I really liked the idea of having a macro within VS.NET... however, wasn't happy with the implementation and final HTML result. I've seriously tweaked the above macro and now it's a one step process. You select the code and press the macro button (if you set one up)... then switch to your blog tool and paste.

You can find the code at http://www.addressof.com.

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Sean Chase — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 23:07:00 GMT

That's great! I usually get my code from VS.NET 2003 and what I do is past into MS Word, then copy from Word and paste into FrontPage 2003, use the "Apply XML Formatting Rules" command in FrontPage, then paste the resulting HTML into the .Text editor in HTML view. L-A-M-E...but it works. :-)

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Johann Gerell — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:40:00 GMT

When I run that macro in VS.Net 2003, I get an error:

Public member 'PasteAndFormat' on type 'Selection' not found.

Any ideas why?

Format Code to HTML within a VS.NET 2K3 Macro (leveraging Microsoft Word)

AddressOf.com — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 06:54:00 GMT

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Jasper22 — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:08:00 GMT

I use http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/ with taged CSS if I want it colored

Visual Studio Add-In: CopySourceAsHtml

Needs Improvement — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:53:00 GMT

<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2004/10/05/238427.aspx">Brad Abrams</a>,
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jaybaz_ms/archive/2004/03/30/103505.aspx">Jay Bazuzi</a>,
<a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/02/05/67957.aspx">Roy Osherove</a>,
and what seems like the majority of .NET bloggers use Word, Word macros, or Visual Studio macros that use Word
in some way to format their code. A few use
<a href="http://www.manoli.net/">Jean-Claude Manoli</a>'s
<a href="http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/">CSharpFormat</a>
tool. Each solution has drawbacks (opening Word, opening another browser window, copying and pasting, extra steps,
terrible HTML, etc) and formatting code is still painful. So...


I've written a simple Visual Studio add-in that allows you to copy source as HTML suitable for pasting into blogs...

CopySourceAsHtml

Needs Improvement — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:52:00 GMT

Brad Abrams, Jay Bazuzi, Roy Osherove, and what seems like the majority of .NET bloggers use Word, Word macros, or Visual Studio macros that use Word in some way to format their code. A few use Jean-Claude Manoli's CSharpFormat...

Formatting code in blog entries

Palermo4's Weblog — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:22:00 GMT

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

Wes — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:03:00 GMT

Check out PostXING (http://markitup.aspxconnection.com/Projects/Project.aspx?projectId=12) it s a simple free blogging tool that has a built in syntax highlighter that works pretty well. I'm acutally working on a more customizable version of this syntax highlighter (to be released soon I hope).

re: Color-Coded Source code in blogs

六合彩 — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:18:00 GMT

http://www.xgsmhlhc.com/

CopySourceAsHtml

Bill Shen's Blog — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:42:00 GMT

CopySourceAsHtml

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Keith's Blog — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:51:30 GMT

Well I guess this will be the first thing to sort out. Looks like Brad Abrams has some answers:http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2004/10/05/238427.aspx...

Format Code to HTML within a VS.NET 2K3 Macro (leveraging Microsoft Word)

AddressOf.com — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:26:09 GMT

Brad Abrams pointed out that he uses copy and paste into Word from Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition.

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Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:22:09 GMT

Here are some tools to use for formatting code for the ol’ blog. You can thank your favorite CodeMonkey

Posting code to your blog from Visual Studio

Andreas Erben's posts — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:14:18 GMT

It is painful to post code to your blog without any special considerations. In the worst case you have

Formatting code in blog entries

Palermo4 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:43:01 GMT

I just posted a blog, and spent too much time trying to get my code to format correctly. At that, it