Blogging C# code

While I was trying what the best way would be to include C# code in my blog, I found that WordPress has problems with <pre> tags: it inserts <br> and <p> tags all over the place, trying to preserve XHTML validity. While I do like the validity idea, I don’t like the fact that it becomes more or less impossible to use the <pre> tag to publish code.

Looking around, I found the two modules that I need to get back proper <pre> functionality and a little nice highlighting for C#: the Syntax Highlighting with Enscript in WordPress plugin and a highlighting definition file for GNU enscript. These are easy to install together and render results like this (GPL code borrowed from the Linux kernel, drivers/hotplug/cpqphp_core.c):

[Edit: not original results]

static inline int is_slot66mhz (struct slot *slot)
{
  if (!slot || !slot->p_sm_slot)
    return 0;

  if (readb(slot->p_sm_slot + SMBIOS_SLOT_TYPE) == 0x0E)
    return 1;

  return 0;
}

or this in C#:

bool result;
Transaction transaction = StorageObject.BeginTransaction( );
try {
  route.CurrentTransaction = transaction;
  result = route.CalculateElements( );

  if (result)
    transaction.Commit( );
  else
    transaction.Rollback( ); // no elements
}
catch {
  transaction.Rollback( );
  throw;
}

return result;