Syntax Highlighting on Marko Apfel

Comparison of Syntax-Highlighter-Plugins for Windows Live Writer

Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:22:00 +0100

After a longer period of blogging abstinence I had again to search the right plugin for Windows Live Writer (WLW) to get a pretty printed source code.

I remembered ones in the past which made me really happy. That one I couldn’t find anymore. So I write this article to have a guideline in the future and maybe to collect some advices from you reader, helping me to find that one I initially searched for…

Running CopySourceAsHtml Add-in under Visual Studio 2010

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:41:00 +0100

Until now CopySourceAsHtml only supports Visual Studio 2008 out of the box.

But it is no problem to pimp up the config-file for supporting Visual Studio 2010.

Copy all three files to %userprofile%\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Addins
Open CopySourceAsHtml.AddIn in a text editor and change both lines with
<Version>9.0</Version> to <Version>10.0</Version>
Run Visual Studio 2010 and CopySourceAsHtml works fine

Differences by pasting formatted text in Word and OneNote

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:54:00 +0100

By pasting formatted text in Word and OneNote both applications act a little bit different. Meanwhile Word supports RTF-formatting OneNote does not.

OneNote could only handle HTML-formatting.

In combination with presenting source code for Visual Studio the Add-in CopySourceAsHtml is available.

Alternatives for the Snippet Compiler

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:32:00 +0100

It seems that the Snippet Compiler is not maintained anymore.

So I need an alternative – also for getting syntax highlighting for code in publications. Preferable with the possibility to conserve this highlighting by copying selections to clipboard. Snippet Compiler does not allows this for selections – only by exporting the whole file content to clipboard with HTML- or RTF-formatting (File > Export > HTML to clipboard respectively RTF to clipboard).

Writing blog-posts with source code

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:32:00 +0200

Postings for blogs I write with Windows Live Writer.

To support syntax highlighting a plugin must be used. Actual source code is formatted with the plugin Code Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer.