Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service. For Windows Live Writer I created a plugin called SyntaxColor4Writer that enables you to embed syntax highlighting in your blog posts. More details about SyntaxColor4Writer can be found here. This is how the plugin looks:

This is an example of a xml fragment generated by SyntaxColor4Writer:

<system.web>
   <compilation defaultLanguage="VB" debug="true" />
   <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" />
</system.web>

I bought the domain name a couple of months ago but finally the site is online. The purpose of IStaySharp.NET is to provide a resource site for .NET developers (articles, faq, etc.) and to provide information on the projects I am working on.

The two projects currently online is log4xsl which is a xsl for viewing XML files generated by log4net. Below you find an example of the output:

The WebBrowser library is the second project and fully embeds the webbrowser functionality of Internet Explorer and Mozilla. It also provides some extra functionality for Internet Explorer. Below you find a sampe project (top is IE and bottom is Mozilla) that can be downloaded on the site.

There are other projects coming and will be updated to the site. If you have any questions and/or feedback please contact me (contact mail can be found in the About menu).

RazorToolbox is a set of utilities/tools in the form of addins, macros, components, etc. for Visual Studio.NET. In the initial release of RazorToolbox we have ComponentDropper.

In .NET you can easily build components (= also controls), but in order to use them on your designer surface you have to add them in the toolbox of Visual Studio.NET. But there are some problems. For example if you are writing an exe-application and added some components in the exe-project, you cannot add them to the toolbox, because the toolbox only accepts DLLs. Another issue is when you are developing a set of components in a control library, you will have to refresh the toolbox for each component you added in the library, it is not automatically refreshed and is time-consuming. Besides that there are some controls in .NET that are not displayed in the toolbox, for example the PropertyGrid.

ComponentDropper allows you to drop a component on the designer surface from a set of assemblies. For example if you are writing an exe-application and added a usercontrol named UserControl1 like the screennshot below:

This list gives the set of components that reside in the current project and the assemblies that are referenced in the project. There you can double-click on UserControl1 and it's added to the form.

There are some settings, like you can first build the project before ComponentDropper search for components in the current project. Also you can indicate that ComponentDropper searches in the list of references in the current project. A list of references can be excluded through expressions, for example: System.*.

Download:RazorToolbox.zip (223,59 KB)

Any feedback and comments are greatly appreciated!

Today I published the first version of the library delarou.Browser. The aim of the library is to wrap the browser functionality of Internet Explorer and Mozilla. It acts like a normal windows control in your toolbox and you can easily drag and drop the controls IEBrowser and/or MozillaBrowser on your designer surface. More information about the library can be found here.

Below you find a screenshot of the demo application (top MSIE, bottom Mozilla):

This library is an initial version and will frequently be updated, because this is a part of a bigger project that I am working on, namely SharpBrowser (more details about that project will come soon). Note that the control IEBrowserHost is not yet intended for use, it’s still in development