📦 Release: v1.0.0 – Initial Release

📦 Release: v1.0.0 – Initial Release

🚀 Overview

This is the first official release of the VB.NET RTF Combiner, a Python-based utility that converts and combines VB.NET source files into a single colour-coded .rtf document. The tool is ideal for documenting, printing, or sharing your VB.NET projects with syntax highlighting similar to Visual Studio.

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✅ Features

• 🔍 Recursively searches and combines .vb files from a selected folder.
• ✨ Visual Studio-style syntax highlighting using Pygments.
• 🧠 Automatically excludes:
  • .Designer.vb files
  • AssemblyInfo.vb
  • System-generated attribute files
• 📄 Appends each file under its own header inside the RTF.
• 💾 Saves output as combined_output.rtf and avoids overwriting by auto-numbering (combined_output_1.rtf, etc.).
• 🖱️ GUI prompts using Tkinter to guide file and folder selection.

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💻 Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• pygments package
  Install via:

  pip install pygments

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📂 How to Use

1. Download the script.
2. Run it with:

   python "code format - Public.py"

3. Follow the on-screen prompts to:
   • Select your global/module .vb file.
   • Select the folder containing your other .vb files.
4. Open the generated RTF in Microsoft Word or WordPad.
5. Use Ctrl + A, then Ctrl + C to copy everything and paste into your final documentation or report.

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📌 Notes

• Tested on Windows 10 and 11.
• Ideal for coursework or portfolio documentation involving VB.NET.