Wednesday, November 21, 2007

How to Get CopySourceAsHTML to Work in Visual Studio 2008

The tool I used to get my source code to look pretty in my blog posts is a Visual Studio Add-In called CopySourceAsHTML.  When I do the copy, I follow the instructions here.

Now, that I want to start using Visual Studio.NET 2008, I need to get this working.

To do so, go to your C:\Users\<User>\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Addins and copy all the files that start with CopySourceAsHtml (there should be four, a pdb, a dll, a config file and an add-in manifest) to the C:\Users\<User>\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins directory.

Then, in the Visual Studio 2008 Addins directory, open the CopySourceAsHtml.AddIn file, and change the HostApplication Version nodes to the 9.0 version.  See below.

<HostApplication>
    <Name>Microsoft Visual Studio Macros</Name>
    <Version>9.0</Version>
</HostApplication>
<HostApplication>
    <Name>Microsoft Visual Studio</Name>
    <Version>9.0</Version>
</HostApplication>

Restart Visual Studio.NET 2008 and you should be all set.

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