highlight_string in C#

Question

Is there an equivalent of PHP's highlight_string function in C#?

It is not necessary to be a built-in function.

Edit: If not is there a good library for that?

Edit2: I really need a server side solution for that like PHP does.

Answer 1

Nope, certainly not in the Framework itself. You'd have to look for libraries that support this.

Answer 2

There's a list of syntax highlight plugins in javascript that you could use.

Answer 3

If you want it for webpages (which I assume, since the PHP highlight function formats it as HTML) you can use Googles Code prettify. It's however a javascript, which on the other hand makes it code-behind language independent.

I'm using it at my site with great success :-)

You can find it here: http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/

Answer 4

There is nothing in the framework that will give you the coloured output. You will have to use a library to do this.

C# Code Format was one of the first .Net ones to come up in Google, although it only supports highlighting of C#, VB, HTML, XML, T-SQL or Monad. It is capable of running server side though as it is written in C#. If you need it to format PHP, then it is probably quite simple to extend it to do so - just make a custom PHPFormat class.

Answer 5

You can build yourself a basic syntax highlighter easy using RegExp.

Here's an example:

Syntax Highlight in C#

Or if you want a html C# highlighter written in C#

C# Syntax Highlighter 2.0

Or a JS highlighter:

highlight.js

Answer 6

A code formatter in csharp, note the link for sourcecode at the bottom. Hope that helps!