Visual Studio copy/paste into Outlook with standard formatting?

Question

I have custom settings in Visual Studio that include a dark background. Copy/pasting to Outlook produces a crime against eyeballs with a dark background in code on a white backg

Answer 1

This add-in adds a command to copy in plain text: VSHelper

Answer 2

Ok so the closest I got was using CopySourceAsHtml which also allows you to define custom css styles for that copied html. I peeked at the css styles when copying code from the default VS theme and copied them over.

Got me 90% there which is good enough - no black code backgrounds on white email backgrounds!

Answer 3

This free VS Extension (named "Copy As HTML") allows you to choose the background color when copying to clipboard:

This is a lightweight tool that allows you to copy code from the Code Window and convert it into HTML while preserving syntax highlighting, indentation and background colour.

Answer 4

The following blog post details how to address this issue in VS2012:

http://codinglifestyle.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/copy-and-paste-formatting-with-visual-studios-dark-theme/