Who to write HTML code using Csharp

amit_ghosh18

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string[] input = new string[] { "Web", "Images", "Gmail", "C:\\Users\\Amit_Personal\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2008\\Projects\\abc\\abc\\google_image_final.png", "Google Search", "I'm Lucky"};

       // Pass the array as a parameter:
       Designpage(input);
   }

   public void Designpage(string\[\] arr)
   {

       string fileLoc = @"C:\\Users\\Amit\_Personal\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2008\\Projects\\abc\\abc\\a.htm";


                 if (File.Exists(fileLoc))
                 {
                     using (StreamWriter s = File.AppendText(fileLoc))
               {

                   //  StringWriter s = new StringWriter();
                   s.WriteLine("{0}", "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \\"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\\">");
                   s.WriteLine("{0}", "<html>");
                   s.WriteLine("{0}", "<title>Google</title>");
                   s.WriteLine("{0}", "<link rel=\\"stylesheet\\" type=\\"text/css\\" href=\\"style.css\\">");
                   s.WriteLine("{0}", "</head>");
                   s.WriteLine("{0}", "<body>");


                   s.WriteLine("<h4>{0}&nbsp;", arr\[0\]);
                   s.Write("{0}&nbsp;", arr\[1\]);
                   s.WriteLine("{0}&nbsp;</h4>", arr\[2\]);
                   s.WriteLine("<img src=\\"{0}\\" />",arr\[3\]);



                   s.WriteLine("{0}", "</body>");
                   s.WriteLine("{0}", "</html>");
                   s.WriteLine("{0}", "");
                   s.Close();
               }
           }

Any one Know how to write better code to generate a .html file using C# language..

Lost User

using (StreamWriter sw = File.AppendText(fileLoc))
{
sw.WriteLine(string.Format(@"

Google

{0}
{1}
{2}

", arr[0], arr[1], arr[2], arr[3]);
}

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Matt Meyer

You could create a file that is the template and contains the content of the markup. for example:

blah blah blah...

{0}

{1}
{3}

Then you can read in that file and use that in a single string.Format line to create the files from a template.

public void DesignPage(string TemplateFile, string OutputFile, string[] Contents){
/* skipping file checks, array checks, etc */
string content = File.ReadAllText(TemplateFile);
content = string.Format(content, Contents);
File.WriteAllText(OutputFile, content);
/* clean up, etc */
}

You can also update the file templates without having to recompile, etc.

Ian Shlasko

Here's one other way to do it... Not necessarily the best, but different, and prevents you from forgetting a closing tag.

XDocument doc = new XDocument(
new XDocumentType("HTML", "PUBLIC", "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"),
new XElement("html",
new XElement("head",
new XElement("title", "Google"),
new XElement("link",
new XAttribute("rel", "stylesheet"),
new XAttribute("type", "text/css")
)
),
new XElement("body",
new XElement("h4", arr[0] + arr[1] + arr[2]),
new XElement("img",
new XAttribute("src", arr[3])
)
)
)
);

Or something like that...

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PIEBALDconsult

Similar to what Ian said, but using an XmlDocument: (Strictly off-the-cuff, not tested, however I did something like this last week to generate an HTML Table in a string)

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument() ;
XmlNode nod ;

doc.AppendChild ( doc.CreateElement ( "html" ) ) ;

doc.DocumentElement.AppendChild ( nod = doc.CreateElement ( "head" ) ) ;
nod.AppendChild ( nod = doc.CreateElement ( "title" ) ) ;
nod.InnerText = "Google" ;

doc.DocumentElement.AppendChild ( nod = doc.CreateElement ( "body" ) ) ;

...

doc.WriteTo ( somestream ) ; // To write to a stream
somestring = doc.OuterXml ; // To copy to a string

Also,

amit_ghosh18 wrote:

s.WriteLine("{0}", "<html>");

you needn't use the "{0}" to write out a single string: s.WriteLine ( "html" ) ; s.WriteLine ( somestring ) ;

BobJanova

Why are you trying to make a fake Google site? For anything but the most trivial example I second the idea of using a template, and substituting special tokens for items in your data. In my HTTP server[^] the SubstitutingFileReader uses special tokens that look like HTML tags, which makes sense if the template is HTML (or another SGML language).