Visual Studio/Live Writer tip: format as code

If you need to post a blog article containing code, and you happen to be using Visual Studio 2010 (VS), there’s a nice tool that provides an easy way to preserve it’s formatting and syntax coloration as it appears within VS.

[EDIT: The original LiveWriter plugin is no longer there — but Tim Mathias created a Visual Studio extension that accomplishes this (thank you Tim!). You can find it here ]

Download this extension using the button on the webpage. Launch the .msi file to install it. Now from within VS you just select your code, CTRL+C to copy it to the clipboard, and then go over to your Live Writer blog and in your main menu-bar, select Insert > Paste As VS Code… and ahhhh… check it!  You also get a nice panel of options to set, and you can save your custimizations as a default.

1. namespace RLib
2. {
3.     /// <summary>
4.     /// Providing this interface helps contribute a sort of ‘aspect-oriented programming’ structure
5.     /// by interjecting an Interlocution and other subsystems across the board.
6.     /// </summary>
7.     public interface IApp
8.     {
9.         /// <summary>
10.         /// Provide access to the Interlocution class that provides us with the various notification and logging services.
11.         /// </summary>
12.         IInterlocution Interlocution { get; }

 

Very nice Tim!

by james w. hurst