Visual Studio Add-In to Output Source Files in HTML Format

Have you ever found yourself looking at a design document with source
code embedded and wondered why isnt this stuff formatted in a way that
makes it easier to read? Have you wanted to print out some source and want
to emphasize the comments and keywords? Well let me tell you I have.

You can now do all of this from within Developers studio. I spent a
couple of Saturdays writing a couple of add-ins that will do this. The
first one is HtmlOut and it will convert the source into an HTML file with
full syntax highlighting.

A couple of notes on this dialog. The output to RTF is always grayed
because it has not been implemented yet. The Project Files radio button
under display file causes a read of the .dsw file (Probably will break
in future versions of DevStudio)
. The List control does not act correctly
(I think any way).

The next item is the print portion. It is pretty much the same as the
HtmlOut except is sends the output to the printer. The same dialog is used
as above so the same notes apply.

Before I post the source code I would like to clean it up first. Like
I said I wrote this in a couple of weekends so its pretty messy, however
if you just cant wait e-mail me and I will send it to you as is.

I need to point out a few people that helped make this possible.

Andrei Stcherbatchenko The syntax coloring text editor. I used
this code to do the parsing for me. This is a great set of classes unfortunately
I butchered these to get the effect I wanted.  http://www.codeguru.com/editctrl/crysedit.shtml

Chris Maunder The Hyperlink control and the color selection
combo boxes. Once again a great set of classes.  http://www.codeguru.com/controls/hyperlink.shtml

Giancarlo Iovino An improved Hyperlink control. Great control
that I use a lot.  http://www.codeguru.com/controls/hyperlinkex.shtml

CodeGuru This is the best web site for developers around.

To install:

Download Add-In

Close DevStudio

Extract the zip to the dev studio addin directory. Should be something
like c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MsDev98\AddIns

Launch DevStudio

Click the Tools\Customize menu item.

Click The Add-ins and Macro files tab.

Check the “HtmlOut Developer Studio AddIn” and “Print Color class”

Click Close.

You will now have two small tool bars. You can use the Alt Dag method
to move these new buttons to your regular toolbars.

Download Add-In (sans source) – 54 KB

Date Last Updated: April 26, 1999

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