Adding Markdown support to TeamMentor's Article 'view and edit workflow'

After Adding MarkdownDeep Web Editor and Editing/Viewing an TeamMentor Article, the next step was to add Markdown support to the main TeamMentor's Article rendering and editing workflow.

Since all the heavy lifting was already done, adding these capabilities was relatively easy to do with the code that can be see on the 2ead06cf1098872849f8e1d68fb3215e2668f502 commit:

Adding MarkdownDeep browser-based Markdown 'Edit and Preview' capabilities to TeamMentor (and editing an TM Article)

After Adding MarkDown support to TeamMentor using MarkDownDeep, where I got MarkdownDeep to work on the backend (ie server-side markdown transformation), the next step was to add client-side viewing and editing (i.e browser-side markdown transformation).

Although there is a MarkdownDeep NuGet package with the client-side coed, I wanted to put the files in a specific location, so I manually added the html, JS and CSs files into the TM’s Javascript folder:

Adding MarkDown support to TeamMentor using MarkDownDeep

After adding ASP.NET MVC 4.0 in TeamMentor (with simple Controller, View and master Layout) I was ready to add Markdown support to TeamMentor.

I chose MarkdownDeep after reviewing the multiple Markdown C# and JavaScript APIs currently available (for more details see the references section at the end of this post)

My first step was to go NuGet and choose the MarkDownDeep - .NET Only Edition package: