How to use ASP.NET MVC 3 and Stackoverflow's Markdown

c# jquery asp.net-mvc asp.net-mvc-3 markdown
Chev picture Chev · Mar 16, 2011 · Viewed 13k times · Source

I've been researching for a few hours now and 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 StackOverflow 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 one site. http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ 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. Any ideas, links, references are much much much appreciated.

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 CodeTunnel.com and I wrote a few blogs about it. Hopefully they help anyone who comes across this question.

Answer

John Farrell picture John Farrell · Mar 16, 2011

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

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