I use Windows Live Writer which has a plugin that lets you insert snippets from Visual Studio which is cool (Jimmy Bogard suggested it in the comments and provides a link):

http://colinjack.blogspot.com/2008/02/posting-c-code-snippets.html

public viewresult register_new_account() {
var accountsubmissiondto = new accountsubmissiondto();
System.Web.Mvc.BindingHelperExtensions.UpdateFrom(accountsubmissiondto, Request.Form);
var validationresult = task.validate(accountsubmissiondto);
if (validationresult.isvalid) {
task.submit(accountsubmissiondto);
return view(“Success”, accountsubmissiondto);
}

return view(“Index”, validationresult.brokenrules);
}

@joey
I keep tellin’ myself I’m going to invest some time in spiking MonoRail… maybe you could point me to some good resources for getting started quickly?

@Mr. Colin
the tasks are indeed service layer components.

I’ve found that code snippets don’t appear well in my feed as well. Can you suggest something for copying and pasting C# source code into html documents?

Our team just found that writing the specs “backwards” was just more readable. We try to keep the technical language as much as possible and try to write them as readable sentences.

What are the the tasks you show for, are they some sort of service or something different entirely?

Off topic but I like the way you structure your BDD specs backwards, can see the sense in that, mind you can see the sense in opposite too

Finally, the way you’re inserting code snippets doesn’t seem to work when you view it via a feed (I just tried from Google Reader) and it also seems to have lost some the casing when you view it in the browser e.g. “validationresult.isvalid”.

@Rob
Got a blog entry about the entirety of the approach you use, not familiar with the castle binding approach.

I guess a better question is why are you using MVC what does MVC have over MonoRail?

public ActionResult Create([CastleBind]CreateNewAccount command)
{
var result = Execute(command);

if(result.HasErrors)
{
ViewData["Title"] = “New Account”;
ViewData["Errors"] = result.Errors;
ViewData["command"] = command;
return View(“New”);
}

ViewData["Title"] = “Account Created”;
ViewData["Message"] = “Your account was created successfully.”;
return View(“AccountCreated”);
}