Jwendl.NET

I wanted a feature similar to this for quite some time. Really it is one of the things that I missed from WordPress. The ability to take LaTeX (like ) based sequences and convert them to .png to display on my blog. You will also need to note that I did this on a self hosted environment, you may have to check with your hosting provider first to see if this will work for you. Here are the steps I took to achieve this:

1. Download MikTex portable from http://www.miktex.org/portable/about
2. Extract the zip file to a folder on your server (I chose c:\Tools)
3. Setup your IIS User in Windows (NOT IIS) to have Read+Execute permissions on the above folder
4. Make sure you are setup in Full Trust
5. Download the extension attached to this post into your ~/App_Code/Extensions folder
6. Setup the directory paths properly
7. Make sure the output directory is Read+Write permissions for your IIS User (in both Windows and IIS)

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I have written an extension to allow you to convert short link displays to a real link. It makes it easier to write your posts / pages when you don't remember the exact link to say a google search page. The format would be something like this [ shortlink:google,Test,Test ] where the first field after the google word is the link text and the second word is the display text. Then in the ExtensionsManager you could create an entry like google and http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q={0}

When it serves the page if the body contains anywhere the word shortlink it then processes the short links against the rules you have setup. Please note that it is the very first draft of this extension. I think there are ways to make it more efficient, but for now I wanted to release it and see what people think.

ShortLink.cs (2.32 kb)