Another Syntax Highlighter

Submitted on Jul 03, 2008, 11:05 a.m.

Thanks to Alexander Groß  for pointing me to syntaxhighlighter . I still think Leo Vildosola's  Code Snippet plugin and highlighter for Windows Live Writer  is amazing. They're both good choices - but I thought I'd give syntaxhighlighter  a try. It produces less markup than Leo's plugin, although it is dependant on a JavaScript lib on the site for the actual highlighting.

 The only challenge in using syntaxhighlighter - is that unlike Leo's all-in-one solution - you need to work out a way to format and encode your snippets first, placing them in either a <pre> or <textarea> element. There are a couple of plugins out there that do this - but I wasn't thrilled with the results, and I've wanted to take a quick look at the WLW plugin API for a while now. Seems like everyone is having a go at this - including Rick Strahl . So here is my attempt - a code snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer ...

Scott  also directed me to the Past As  plugin on Codeplex - which I'll be trying out as well.

The result - using my plugin - and syntaxhighlighter  on the site...

:-)