Pasting nicely formatted code into your blog from Visual Studio.NET

Here are the steps:

• Write the code in vs.net
• Paste it into a new word document
• Save the document as an html(filtered) (or .Text will have trouble with it)
• Close the doc , then re-open it without changing any text after that (this is an important step)
• Copy the code from the doc into your blog post

 

Update: ok. This was just too obvious. I've created a short word macro that does this for you.

simply paste the following code in a new macro module in word that belongs to the Normal.dot template.

Then assign it a keyboard shortcut using right click on toolbars-customize-keyboard-macros and you're done:

 

Sub FormatCodeForBlog()

    Selection.PasteAndFormat(wdPasteDefault)

    ActiveDocument.SaveAs(FileName:="temp.htm", FileFormat:=wdFormatFilteredHTML, _

          LockComments:=False, Password:="", AddToRecentFiles:=True, WritePassword _

        :="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False, EmbedTrueTypeFonts:=False, _

        SaveNativePictureFormat:=False, SaveFormsData:=False, SaveAsAOCELetter:= _

        False)

    ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdWebView

    ActiveWindow.Close()

    RecentFiles(1).Open()

    Selection.WholeStory()

    Selection.Copy()

End Sub

From: http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/02/05/67957.aspx