How to format code blogging with word 2007

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Today I was trying to blog with word 2007 and I found some difficulties with code. First of all I suggest you to install a Visual Studio Plugin that enable a “copy source as HTML” option that permits you to copy the code as HTML and this makes the life easier. The problem is that simply pasting the code into word will produce some strange results

3”’ <summary>

4”’ classe base per la definizione di proprietà comuni

5”’ </summary>

6”’ <remarks></remarks>

7 <TypeConverter(GetType(ExpandableObjectConverter))> _

8Public
Class BaseDefinition

9
17 <NotifyParentProperty(True)> _

18Public
Property CssClass() As
String

19Get

20Return mCssClass

21End
Get

22Set(ByVal value As
String)

23 mCssClass = value

24End
Set

25End
Property

The code above has two problems, the first is that spacing between lines is too big, and then in HTML there are some <BR/> tags that completely makes code unreadable. After some investigation I found that it is possible to force word to generate better HTML making two substitutions. The first is substitute ^p character with ^l, the ^l character does not generate <P> tags but a simple <BR/> and this makes lines spacing smaller.

3”’ <summary>
4”’ classe base per la definizione di proprietà comuni
5”’ </summary>
6”’ <remarks></remarks>
7 <TypeConverter(GetType(ExpandableObjectConverter))> _
8Public
Class BaseDefinition
9
17 <NotifyParentProperty(True)> _
18Public
Property CssClass() As
String
19Get
20Return mCssClass
21End
Get
22Set(ByVal value As
String)
23 mCssClass = value
24End
Set
25End
Property

Now you need to substitute also the space character with ^s (unifying space) this (do not ask me why) makes word not to generate the weird <BR /> tag.

3”’ <summary>
4”’ classe base per la definizione di proprietà comuni
5”’ </summary>
6”’ <remarks></remarks>
7 <TypeConverter(GetType(ExpandableObjectConverter))> _
8PublicClass BaseDefinition
9
10”’ <summary>
11”’ è necessario questo attributo per far siche il designer si accorga del
12”’ cambiamento della proprietà e fare in modo che venga serializzata
13”’ </summary>
14”’ <value></value>
15”’ <returns></returns>
16”’ <remarks></remarks>
17 <NotifyParentProperty(True)> _
18PublicProperty CssClass() AsString
19Get
20Return mCssClass
21EndGet
22Set(ByVal value AsString)
23 mCssClass = value
24EndSet
25EndProperty

Now the code looks really better but a last problem remains, the code with line numbering cannot be copied and pasted from the blog into visual studio. Even if you remove the numbering, word substitutes all occurrence of double ‘ chars with ” character, so the resulting VB.Code is not valid. At this time I really do not understand how to tell word to leave the ‘ code unchanged.

Alk.