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CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2010

emma — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:23:18 +0000

CopySourceAsHtml is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 that allows you be able to quickly get your code as HTML from Visual Studio, just like being able to save it as a HTML file from the Save As dialog. It’s very helpful if you frequently post code to blog or send code in email.

I recently switched to Visual Studio 2010 and noticed this plug in is not ready for Visual Studio 2010 yet. Here is how you can get it work for Visual Studio before CopySourceAsHtml owner releases an official update to support Visual Studio 2010.

Download latest CopySourceAsHtml msi and install it

By default it will be installed toC:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins
Create a folder named Addins under C:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio 2010 and copy CopySourceAsHtml.AddIn here.
Modify Line #5 and #9 change 9.0 to10.0
Launch Visual Studio 2010 –> Tools –> Addin Manager, if you see CopySourceAsHtml shows up, then it’s enabled successfully.

6. Now you can select the code and get html by clicking Copy As Html

This is an example. CopySourceAsHtml also provides options to show/hide control line number, word wrap and so on.

 
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
5
namespace HelloWorld
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// My first application
System.Console.WriteLine(“Hello, World!”);
}
}
}

Use coalescing operator to write more readable code

emma — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:35:40 +0000

Tired of code like this?

public string Foo
{
get { return foo; }
set
{
if (value == null)
value = String.Empty;
foo = value;
}
}

public string Bar
{
get { return bar; }
set
{
if (value == null)
value = String.Empty;
bar = value;
}
}

Use coalescing operator to make your code a bit more readable.

public string Foo

{
get { return foo; }
set
{
foo = value ?? String.Empty;
}
}

public string Bar
{
get { return bar; }
set
{
bar = value ?? String.Empty;
}
}

Does this look better? The ?? operator is called the null-coalescing operator and is used to define a default value for a nullable value types as well as reference types. It returns the left-hand operand if it is not null; otherwise it returns the right operand. More information on ?? can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173224.aspx

GhostDoc Tutorial

emma — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:28:53 +0000

Earlier I have introduced this excellent comment auto generation tool – GhostDoc. Now you can follow this instructions to get GhostDoc working in just 5 minutes.

Download GhostDoc and install
GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plugin, so after Visual Studio is launched, you’d need to assign a hotkey for automatic comments generation, or just click skip to use default hotkey Ctrl + Shift + D
Right click on any class or method and select Document this, or press hotkey set in step #1
GhostDoc will do best guess and generate the excellent comment for you.

Now don’t document your code any more, just Ctrl+Shift+D it.

Visual Studio plug-in: GhostDoc

emma — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:15:38 +0000

Are your tired of documenting you code using C# /// XmlDoc syntax for each and every method?

It is time for you to meet SubMain’s GhostDoc. SubMain’s GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plug-in the was design just for you. It will parse your method/property/parameters names and will create a great documentation just for you with simple Ctrl+Shift+D.

Download it Free at: http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx.

Update 04/21, I have posted a GhostDoc Tutorial, check it out.