Show HN: Convert C#/VB into Hyperlinked, Static HTML – Powered by Roslyn

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Awesome. Works with C# 6.0 too:

http://sourcebrowser.io/Browse/louthy/language-ext

This is very cool. I'd love to share a few things I've helped build that might help people who are interested in getting similar stuff for other languages (Java/Go/Python/Ruby/JavaScript):

Sourcegraph - fully browsable, linked, and cross-referenced code with usage examples

For example, here's a class in the AWS Java SDK:

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java@master/....

And the Go stdlib:

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go@master/.GoPacka...

And it's all based on srclib, an open-source, multi-language source code analysis framework: https://srclib.org/.

This is excellent, basically "go to definition" implemented in HTML. I'd love to see this extended to other languages.

And other repositories. Git, svn, tfs etc.

TFS comes with something like this built in. You can send someone a link to a changeset and see all of the differences nicely formatted on a web page. It is very nice.

Next feature request would be "find usages"!

The Roslyn team themselves have had a site up very similar to this for a while (http://source.roslyn.codeplex.com), but covering only the Roslyn codebase itself. It has find all references (e.g. http://source.roslyn.codeplex.com/#Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Wo...) and various other neat features.

This is extremely handy for .NET devs (myself included). Great work.

P.S.: is there anyway of using it for private repositories?

I think this is better than sourcegraph.

Yes, it's funny how they did not support C# and now someone built something much better for it.

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