Testing out Colin Coller's new CopySourceAsHtml release...

Looks like the definitive method for formatting source for blogs has been made! The new version adds a whole lot of stuff (from Colin's blog):

  • You can turn word wrapping on and off. If "wrap words" is checked, lines are rendered in <p> blocks. Otherwise, lines are rendered in <pre> blocks. Check this if your blog layout isn't wide enough for your code.
  • You can strip line breaks from the generated HTML. Handy if your blog software converts newlines automatically.
  • You can add additional RSS rules to the file, line, and block styles. Use this to add borders, scroll bars, etc. to your code.
  • You can embed styles or use a stylesheet. If "embed styles" is checked, tags have style attributes. If "embed styles" is unchecked, tags have class attributes, and the generated HTML includes a style block.
  • You can change which menu items are added to the context menus from within the add-in.
  • The generated HTML is copied to the clipboard in text and CF_HTML formats.
  • The code is cleaner and more modular, and the object model should make it easy to add new features in future versions.
  • There's an "About" tab with the version, copyright, license, my contact information, and my Amazon.com wish list (just kidding :).

Also added is using the defined colouring from VS.NET for the colouring (not Resharper coluring though - but I suspect Resharper uses some sort of hack for this anyway...)

Anyway, an example of what this awesome tool can output is below (just a simple object serialization routine):

using System.IO;

using System.Text;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

 

namespace Notifier

{

    /// <summary>

    /// Summary description for Deserializer.

    /// </summary>

    public class Deserializer

    {

        public static string Serialize(Template theTemplate)

        {

            XmlSerializer xSer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Template));

            MemoryStream writer = new MemoryStream();

                xSer.Serialize(writer,theTemplate);

                string outStr =  ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(writer.ToArray());

                writer.Close();

                return outStr;

        }

 

        public static Template DeSerialize(string serializedTemplate)

        {

            XmlSerializer xSer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Template));

            byte[] bytArr = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(serializedTemplate);

            using(MemoryStream stream= new MemoryStream(bytArr))

            {

                return xSer.Deserialize(stream) as Template;

            }

        }

    }

}

 

Print | posted @ Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:11 AM

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