Version 0.28 of SyntaxColor4Writer has been compiled with the latest bits of Windows Live Writer 2008 (12.0.1370.325). You can download it from here.

Version 0.27 of SyntaxColor4Writer has been released. It has been updated with the newest release of Windows Live Writer v12.0.1367.1128 and CodeHighlighter 4.0.0051.

Finally Microsoft has released a final version of Windows Live Writer, namely Windows Live Writer 2008. This means also a new version of SyntaxColor4Writer that has been updated with the latest bit of Windows Live Writer and CodeHighlighter from Actipro, more info here.

A new version of SyntaxColor4Writer has been released, version 0.25. It has been updated with the newest release of Windows Live Writer Beta 3 and CodeHighlighter 4.0.0049 from Actipro.

A new version of SyntaxColor4Writer has been released, version 0.24. It has been updated with the newest release of Windows Live Writer Beta 2 and CodeHighlighter 4.0.0048 from Actipro. There are also some minor changes in the layout of the sidebar.

Please leave a comment to let me know if there are any issues and/or feedback!

Version 0.22 of SyntaxColor4Writer is compiled against the new build release of Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Build 145). The issues around spell checking and FireFox will be fixed in the next release.

I've upgraded SyntaxColor4Writer with the new version of CodeHighlighter 4.0. It uses a new parsing model and it supports some additional language definitions, namely:

• Assembly
• Lua
• MSIL
• Pascal

For example:

1 .method public hidebysig instance bool HasChanges() cil managed
2 {
3       .maxstack 2
4       L_0000: ldarg.0 
5       L_0001: ldc.i4.s 28
6       L_0003: call instance bool System.Data.DataSet::HasChanges(System.Data.DataRowState)
7       L_0008: ret 
8 }

Any suggestions and/or feedback about SyntaxColor4Writer is welcome!

Today I published a new version of SyntaxColor4Writer on IStaySharp.NET. It's compiled against the new beta version of Windows Live Writer with the following added features:

• 'Copy Code' link (copies everything to the clipboard)
• Caption text
• Customize backcolor, including line numbering
• Spaces in tabs
• Font size

Below you find some examples:

1 <system.web>
2    <compilation defaultLanguage="VB" debug="true"/>
3    <customErrors mode="ReadOnly"/>
4 </system.web>

C# code of the Main method class.

 1 /// <summary>
 2 /// The main entry point for the application.
 3 /// </summary>
 4 [STAThread]
 5 static void Main()
 6 {
 7    Application.EnableVisualStyles();
 8    Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
 9    Application.Run(new TestForm());
10 }

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>