How can I convert dib or other interactive notebook file into pure markdown

[mturczyn]

Once I am done with all coding and notes to that, I would like to share that, for example with coworkers. But then they would have to have the same set of tools (VS Code with the extension). Or I would like to post it to some Azure DevOps wiki. Then I would need pure markdown. Code samples should be then wrapped in ```'s to make them code block (at least I imagine that it should work like that).

[jonsequitur]

If you run .NET Interactive: Save notebook as from the command palette, you can save it as an .ipynb. From there, you can use PanDoc or nbconvert to convert it to a number of other formats. You might want to run and save it before converting if you're interested in preserving the cell outputs.

[michha]

function ConvertToNotebook {
    param([string] $markdownFileName)
    [string] $content = Get-Content -Path $markdownFileName -Encoding utf8 -Raw
    $contentNew = $content -replace '(?msi)```PowerShell(.*?)```', ('#!pwsh' + [System.Environment]::NewLine + '$1' + [System.Environment]::NewLine + '#!markdown')
    $contentNew = '#!markdown' + [System.Environment]::NewLine + [System.Environment]::NewLine + $contentNew
    $contentNew | Out-File ($markdownFileName -replace '\.md$', '.dib') -Encoding utf8 -NoNewline
}
function ConvertFromNotebook {
    param([string] $notebookFileName)
    [string] $content = Get-Content -Path $notebookFileName -Encoding utf8 -Raw
    $contentNew = $content -replace '(?msi)#!pwsh\r\n(.*?)\r\n#!markdown', '```PowerShell$1```'
    $contentNew = $contentNew -replace '#!markdown\r\n\r\n', ''
    $contentNew | Out-File ($notebookFileName -replace '\.dib$', '.md') -Encoding utf8 -NoNewline
}

✅ Tested on Windows 10 on PS7

Maybe this code could be part of the extension. Maybe a new context menu entry?