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This screencast takes a break from the theme of the past few in the series and examines two of the projects within Castle's Contrib project - CodeGenerator and ActiveWriter.

http://colinramsay.co.uk/screencasts/5/

The Monday morning blues mean this cast is a little less fluent than the others, but I hope you find it useful. Read on for some of the code snippets used in the screencast.

Here's the snippet you need to add to your .csproj file to enable the CodeGenerator:

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Castle.Tools.CodeGenerator\Castle.Tools.CodeGenerator.targets" />

Here's the code for the AbstractController base class I use in the CodeGenerator segment:

using Castle.MonoRail.Framework;
using Castle.Tools.CodeGenerator.Services;
using CodeGeneratorTest.SiteMap;

namespace CodeGeneratorTest.Controllers
{
	public class AbstractController : SmartDispatcherController
	{
		private ICodeGeneratorServices _services;

		public ICodeGeneratorServices CodeGeneratorServices
		{
			get { return _services; }
		}

		public RootAreaNode Site
		{
			get { return new RootAreaNode(_services); }
		}

		protected virtual void PerformGeneratedInitialize()
		{
			_services = new DefaultCodeGeneratorServices(
				new DefaultControllerReferenceFactory(),
				new AspDotNetRedirectService(),
				new DefaultArgumentConversionService(),
				new DefaultRuntimeInformationService());
			_services.Controller = this;
		}

		protected override void Initialize()
		{
			base.Initialize();

			PerformGeneratedInitialize();
		}
	}
}