Posting Code

Many of the posts I will be writing will likely have code snippets contained in them so I need to find a good way to convert from code (C++, C# and others?) to html. I am looking for a good tool that emulates Visual Studio 2005's style. Any suggestions?

I am starting with Carlos Aguilar Mares' CodeColorizer. It does an ok job, but some of the colors differ from VS 2005. Here is a screen capture from VS 2005:



And the code looks like this from the CodeColorizer:

// myfirst.cpp--displays a message

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
    using namespace std;
    cout << "Come up and C++ me some time.\n";
    cout << "You won't regret it!" << endl;
    return 0;
}

We will see how this works out.

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C++ Primer Plus

The book I am using as an introduction to C++ is C++ Primer Plus (Fifth Edition) by Stephen Prata. I am not too deep into the book so I have not yet formed my own opinion on the book. I can only go off of the reviews of readers on Amazon who's average rating is . As I work through the book I will try to draw comparisons between C++ and C#. I am sure that I will make mistakes so please correct me when I am wrong!

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Hello World

...And with any good developers first post I will start with "Hello World."

It is my hope that over the next few months (years?) I will be posting about my journey learning C++ from a C# developer's point of view. I have been developing using C# for the past 3 years and before that was programming using FORTRAN. I am by no means an expert with C# or .NET. I am surely not an 31i+3 hax0r (I can't even figure out how to type h@x0r without blogger.com thinking I am trying to write a mailto: link to h @ xor, nice!) Needless to say making the leap to a non-garbage collected language may be a bit of a struggle. I hope this blog will help me solidify what I learn in this process as well as correct my misconceptions and misunderstandings through comments, replies, berating, and the like. I hope in the end it may help someone else in my position.

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