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Aeropher
Aeropher

Reputation: 117

Generate an HTML file using vb.net

I have created a program that merges files and I have decided to output the results as an HTML document so that it is legible. I have achieved this output using System.IO.StreamWriter and creating a textfile with all the html formatting and in-line CSS and saving it with the .html extension like so:

Dim lstrBackupOutput = "Test.html"
Dim lobjWriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter(lstrBackupOutput)
Dim lobjWriter as 
lobjWriter.WriteLine("<html>")
lobjWriter.WriteLine("</head>")
lobjWriter.WriteLine("<style type=""text/css""> h1,h2,h3{font-family:Arial, Serif;}  table{border-collapse:collapse; width:100%; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;} th{height:30px;} td{text-align:left; padding:7px;} table, th, td{border:1px solid green;} </style>")
lobjWriter.WriteLine("</head>")

etc.

Is there more of a VB.NET way to do this? Most of my searches churn out ASP.NET results that don't seem to apply.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 11111

Answers (3)

alundy
alundy

Reputation: 857

I would use XSLT for this approach 9 times out of 10.

It depends on how much dynamic data you need to have in the HTML. If it's a good amount, or you need repeating rows of data, then XSLT is the way to go.

Here's a good start if you are unfamiliar with XSLT: XSLT Tutorial (W3Schools)

Upvotes: 1

LeftyX
LeftyX

Reputation: 35587

Another option would be to use HtmlTextWriter.

Upvotes: 0

hennson
hennson

Reputation: 811

check out this article http://cdmckay.org/blog/2009/02/01/creating-an-html-document-with-net/

The XML approach is a good start...

' Create the body element and append it to the root.
Dim xmlBody As XmlElement = xmlDoc.CreateElement("body")
xmlRoot.AppendChild(xmlBody)

Upvotes: 1

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