Outlook C# code formatting?

Question

I've searched around the internet for this, and I'm not finding it...

Is there a way or a add-in you can use that will make code (let's say C#) appear properly in Outlook emails?

I hate when I'm trying to communicate a snippet to a fellow developer, and when you paste it into an Outlook email (which is using Word/HTML as the editor), it looks terrible, tries to all kinds of spell checking on it, and if you have to modify or pseudo-code it, it auto-corrects things like lowercase "i" to capital "I", etc.

I guess I'm just looking for something that does at least as good a job as the code format editor on StackOverflow here, without me having to disable HTML entirely in Outlook. If there was something that did code highlighting, that would rock.

I guess I should also specify that I'm really talking more about being able to write new code right in an outlook window, not paste it in. I could just paste in code from Visual Studio and it would come in as HTML, but I'm one of those people with a dark background, and it looks terrible to have that much formatting.

Answer 1

You should look into using PasteBin.com or CodePaste.net

Answer 2

Better yet, why not try Rick Strahl's CodePaste.net? It provides a simple way to Twitter, email, and otherwise share code snippets. If you're really set on emailing those snippets, you could use the site to format your code snippet, then copy/paste the html view of it

Answer 3

I got part-way there by just playing with styles in Outlook (2007). I was able to create a "code" style that uses Consolas 8pt font (fixed pitch font). I also turned off leading/trailing line spacing, so the code within that style is single-spaced.

However, I could not find a way to turn off case correction based on the selected style. (if anyone knows how to do that, I'd love to see the post -- maybe I just missed something basic)

Answer 4

Try this for outlook http://www.fauskes.net/nb/syntaxms/