Visual Studio Hacks

Blog Code from Visual Studio #96

Chapter 13, Enhancing Visual Studio

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document.ActiveWindow.Selection.WholeStory( )

' Copy it to the clipboard.

document.ActiveWindow.Selection.Copy( )

' Close the document.

document.Close( )

document = Nothing

application = Nothing

oleApplication = Nothing

' Cleanup after ourselves.

IO.File.Delete(path)

End Sub

End Module

After you have added and saved this macro, you can then select a piece of

text in the code editor and then double-click on this macro. You will see the

hourglass for a couple of moments, the macro has to open Microsoft Word,

which takes a few seconds. When the hourglass goes away, you will have the

formatted HTML code in your clipboard. You can then go to your favorite

blogging tool and paste the HTML directly into that tool. This macro works

by copying the code from Word. This means that, when you paste the code,

it has to be into an application that will understand the rich formatting. For

instance, pasting this into the design view of a

richtextbox will work per-

fectly; pasting into Notepad will not work.

Convert to HTML with an Add-in

Another way to get from code to HTML is through the use of a freely avail-

able add-in called CopySourceAsHTML. First, you will need to download

and install the add-in. It can be downloaded from http://www.jtleigh.com/

CopySourceAsHTML.

After downloading and installing the add-in, you will see a new item ...