RTF to HTML and the GData API

Finally got around to properly extracting the RTF conversion code from AutoFormatter last night. It turned out to be as easy as I thought, after last time's wasted efforts. I've had a look on Robert Verpalen's blog for some contact details, but I can't find any and the AutoFormatter post doesn't seem to allow comments.

I might have to leave a comment on another one of his other posts, but the date on the AutoFormatter post is December 2005, so I don't know if he's maintaining it now. Doesn't seem to be any posts since then about the application anyway.

I think I'll wait until I have something usable first though.

Anyway, with that extracted I downloaded the GData API SDK and tried to connect to my blog. The sample code included is very helpful, but it still took a little time to get my head around. I eventually knocked up some code that would add a new draft to my blog, so I think I have everything I need to make the plugin now.

Now I just need to learn about how to make a decent plugin.

Creating Visual Studio Plugins

This is more of a reminder to myself than anything else: Exploring Extensibility: Your First Visual Studio Add-in.

I found it at about the same time I was looking into the GData API, and I had an idea about creating a plugin to Visual Studio which would allow you to upload a code snippet to a blog post, and have it fully formatted so it was readable.

Still might do it, but I'm not sure how indepth the wizard approach will be. I'll probably end up with a standalone application that you paste code into and then upload it.

Ohh.. Polls

Maybe I'm behind the times a bit with this, but I've found you can add polls to your BlogSpot blogs. They're a page element you can add from the Template tab. I'm sure it wasn't there the last time I looked.

Posting Code on blogger.com

Wish I'd known how to post code on this blog before. I've manually spaced code out before, and it was so tedious it took multiple tries as I just go so bored with it.

Thanks Neil