cool hack!

MCA

"Thomas Kadlec" <kadlect@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I came up with this really interesting trick today and thought it was well
> worth sharing...
>
> Please use with caution and testing before you try this.. use at your own
> risk!
>
> If you use Visual InterDev and want your asp+ C# or VB code syntax color
> coded do this:
>
> 1) right click on any .aspx or .cs file in your project, choose 'open
with'
> and make the default editor "HTML editor"
>
> 2) at the top of your .aspx pages add these lines: (replace test.aspx
with
> whatever you want)
>
> <%-- '*** test.aspx ***'
> <%@ Page Language="JScript" %> --%>
>
> 3) at the top of your .cs files add this line:
>
> //<script '*** test.aspx ***'>
>
> Viola!!! your C# code is now color coded!!
>
> InterDev is fooled into thinking it is looking at jscript code (and colors
> it as such) but because of the similarities of the two languages you will
> hardly be able to tell the difference and it is very nice to have your
> comments in green and key words in blue etc.
>
> In both cases the lines you entered above are completely ignored by the
aspx
> engine because they are commented out by either the new <%-- --%>
serverside
> comment (in step 2) or the c# // comment (in step 3) As you write your
> .aspx you should pretend that the file was completely empty.. i.e. even
> though there is that @page directive there you must realize that for all
> intents and purposes as far as your .aspx page goes it ISN'T there.
>
> so a real .aspx page might start of like this:
>
> <%-- '*** test.aspx ***'
> <%@ Page Language="JScript" %> --%>
> <%@ Page Language="c#" %>
>
> Again the first two lines are ignored by the asp+ engine their only
purpose
> is to fool Interdev that the page is javascript so it will colorcode your
c#
> code The third line would be your 'real' @ Page Directive. everything
below
> you would write just as you have been doing .aspx files.
>
> A bonus is that even autocomplete will work for built in objects like
> "Session" or "Server" from asp 3.0 javascript. of course this could get
you
> into trouble being as there are differences in the new objects (so use
that
> feature cautiously)
>
> This can be applied to vb code as will only in your .vb files... (I
haven't
> tested this with vb code so you might have to play with getting it to work
> but I know it is possible as long as you understand the general concept)
>
> for .aspx files:
> <%-- '*** test.aspx ***'
> <%@ Page Language="VBScript" %> --%>
>
> for .vb files:
> '<script '*** test.aspx ***'>
>
> Hope you are as excited by this as I am! ;-)
> All I can say is WOO HOO! Boy does this make life easier!
>
> Thomas Kadlec
> kadlect@hotmail.com
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