Markdown - James Montemagno https://staging.montemagno.com/tag/markdown/ https://staging.montemagno.com/content/images/2017/08/MonogramIcon_Orange_NoBuffer.png Markdown - James Montemagno https://staging.montemagno.com/tag/markdown/ Hugo -- gohugo.io Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:21:57 GMT 60 Visual Studio Code, your new Markdown editor https://staging.montemagno.com/visual-studio-code-your-new-markdown-editor/ 598df8f2c121b60019bf2fec Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:44:10 GMT I feel like I have been spoiled for a long time using macOS as there have been a plethora of great Markdown editors. Now that I am full time on a Surface Book and Windows 10 it saddened me that a version of Mou wasn’t coming or planned at all. I write Markdown just about every day between the libraries on my GitHub and writing blogs and documentation. I have always used VS Code for just light weight text editing and now that it not only runs everywhere, but also supports all sorts of extensions I thought there had to be some form of markdown extension to get me through the day.

 When you boot up VS Code, it isn’t straight forward as to how to get to extensions.You will need to go to View -> Extensions

This brings up the Extensions manager and if you type in @popular then you will see the top extensions. (#1 being C#, which is awesome).

Simply searching for “markdown” gets you into a world of trouble as there are tons of hits all with no icons or real reviews or downloads. Do not worry because I have done all the hard work for you and test a bunch of them out and the one we want to install is “Auto-Open Markdown Preview” (currently version 0.0.3), because it is AMAZING.

Now, you will probably have to re-start and then just open up a markdown file:

Glorious! With images and everything. It is awesome! Enjoy!

]]> Editing Markdown in Xamarin Studio https://staging.montemagno.com/editing-markdown-in-xamarin-studio/ 598df8f2c121b60019bf300a Sat, 16 May 2015 02:55:09 GMT I can’t help myself I really love Xamarin Studio. Don’t get me wrong I still love Visual Studio for everything that it does, but with Xamarin Studio 5.9 the best mobile focused IDE just keeps getting better. However, did you know that you don’t have to wait for new releases of Xamarin Studio to get new features? Xamarin Studio has an entire ecosystem of awesome plugins to extend the IDE and I just stumbled upon one that solves one of my common issues, which is the ability to edit and preview Markdown. I love markdown for its simplicity and I often have to edit readme.md files for GitHub and the Markdown Viewer makes everything LOVELY! So here is how you get it:

Installing and Using The Add-in

To get started all you need to do is go to the Xamarin Studio Add-in Manager.

You will need to turn on the alpha channel under the Gallery tab by selecting Manage Repositories:

Then turn on Alpha Channel, Hit Close, and then Refresh the list.

You will now see the Markdown Viewer available under IDE extensions:

With the add-in installed now simply add your readme.md or any other .md file to the solution level. Double clicking the file will bring you into a markdown editor. 

On the bottom you will see a Source/Markdown viewer toggle similar to the Xamarin.Android designer. Simply toggle to see your markdown rendered in realtime!

Enjoy the awesome markdown experience!

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