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Blog Code from Visual Studio #96

Chapter 13, Enhancing Visual Studio

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under that control, to the new container control. Both features are timesav-

ing and are much easier to do than trying to select and move those controls

on the overly busy form designer.

The Control Outline power toy is an easy-to-install and easy-to-use feature

that can be very helpful when developing Windows Forms applications.

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Blog Code from Visual Studio Hack #96

Convert code in Visual Studio to HTML so it is easier to post that code on a

web site or web log. Then, share your snippets with your adoring public.

It is easy to grab a piece of code from your project and then turn around and

write about it in an article or in a post on your web log. One tricky part of

the process is getting the nice code coloring that Visual Studio provides for

that code. When publishing your code to an online article or weblog, you

need to convert that code to HTML and hand-code all the coloring, a

tedious process. A couple of hacks make it much easier to cut and paste

code directly from Visual Studio and transform it into HTML so you can

easily post it to your web log.

Convert to HTML with a Macro

Cory Smith (http://addressof.com/blog) has come up with an interesting solu-

tion to this problem. He has written a macro that will take the code you

have selected, copy it to Microsoft Word, and then save it from Microsoft

Word in HTML. ...