C# – How to use ASP.NET MVC 3 and Stack Overflow’s Markdown

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I couldn't find any real sources for this. I'm building a site in ASP.NET MVC 3 and would like to take advantage of the Markdown editor that Stack Overflow uses. Does anybody have a good tutorial?

Where do you download the latest markdown? What language is it written in? Where would I start in integrating this into an MVC 3 project? Even after all the searching and reading I've done I'm still pretty confused.

I came across this site. But this seems outlandishly old and it would seem I would have to learn a little something about CGI and Perl which I have absolutely no experience with. A JavaScript/jQuery version would be splendid.

Update

I noticed this question is getting a fair amount of views so I decided to update it with some helpful references. I managed to get a Markdown editor working nicely on my website, and I wrote a few blogs about it.

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Stackoverflow open sourced their version of Markdown to the world. Its called MarkdownSharp and is written in C#.

Somebody wrote a HtmlHelper here: http://blog.dantup.com/2011/03/an-asp-net-mvc-htmlhelper-extension-method-for-markdown-using-markdownsharp

If you are looking for how to implement a javascript editor there is an existing question: Integrate Markitup text editor to ASP.NET MVC project

For MVC v5.1 use Html.EnumDropDownListFor

@Html.EnumDropDownListFor(
    x => x.YourEnumField,
    "Select My Type", 
    new { @class = "form-control" })

For MVC v5 use EnumHelper

@Html.DropDownList("MyType", 
   EnumHelper.GetSelectList(typeof(MyType)) , 
   "Select My Type", 
   new { @class = "form-control" })

For MVC 5 and lower

I rolled Rune's answer into an extension method:

namespace MyApp.Common
{
    public static class MyExtensions{
        public static SelectList ToSelectList<TEnum>(this TEnum enumObj)
            where TEnum : struct, IComparable, IFormattable, IConvertible
        {
            var values = from TEnum e in Enum.GetValues(typeof(TEnum))
                select new { Id = e, Name = e.ToString() };
            return new SelectList(values, "Id", "Name", enumObj);
        }
    }
}

This allows you to write:

ViewData["taskStatus"] = task.Status.ToSelectList();

by using MyApp.Common

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Related Solutions

Html – Markdown and image alignment

C# – How to create a dropdownlist from an enum in ASP.NET MVC

For MVC v5.1 use Html.EnumDropDownListFor

For MVC v5 use EnumHelper

For MVC 5 and lower

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