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Visual Studio Code Extension For Taking Screenshot Of Your Codebase

Domenico Solazzo on March 28, 2020

Hello Dev.To developers, Whenever you are writing documentation for your current project or just making the next blog posts on Dev.to in Software ...
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Anthony Chinwe

This was a very helpful post. I've been seeing a lot of posts on various SM platforms featuring code snippets processed on the Carbon website but until now, had never really known about the site. Thanks for sharing

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Domenico Solazzo

Glad you liked it!

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David Makogon

Great to see a list of good code-capture extensions. I hadn't heard of either Carbon or Polacode. Personally, I prefer to include actual code (formatted for whatever specific language it's representing), vs code images, in blog posts and articles. This provides the most compatibility with screen-readers and other accessibility tools, and allows for copy/pasting. I can see this most useful for posting on social media though. Thanks!

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Domenico Solazzo

Agree with what you said!
Most of the time, copy/paste works best but on social media that is not a possibility!

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Sean Allin Newell

When would you use screenshot vs copy-pasta in a code fenced language tag? I would imagine posting somewhere that doesn't have clde fences/markdown capabilities, but are there other situations?

Thanks for the sweet extension! Bookmarked this post 👍

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Domenico Solazzo

Personally, I use these tools mostly when posting on Instagram or I need to show part of the code in videos (and I do not have a screencast of it). On blog posts and articles, If there is the possibility, then I think copy-paste the code would be a much better solution! :D

Happy Monday!

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Eugene Karataev

I agree that code screenshots looks beautiful when created with Carbon or Polacode, but I prefer to share code as text in order to copy/paste it without an effort.

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Domenico Solazzo

Agree! I prefer to share the code as well. However, that would not work on social media like Instagram!

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Felix Terkhorn

Thanks for this post. Both of these tools are new to me!

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Domenico Solazzo

Glad you liked it!

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Angel Rodríguez

Excellent extension! I didn't know her and now I'll adopt her

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Domenico Solazzo

What is your favourite visual studio code extension?