Generating HTML from an aspx page.....

[Jane]

Hi

I have an .aspx page thats part of a site, its usually called by a user in a
browser with an ID in the querystring from where it does lots of exciting
things and database reads to produce the page - nothing too different or
exciting there.

However, what I'd like to be able to do is to have the page run without the
help of a browser (say from the command line) and generate the HTML output
into a file I can pick up for later use.

Can it be done ?

Jane

[Nick Holmes]

I don't think there is an easy way to refactor an asp.net page into a
stand-alone HTML generating exe. Its worth pointing out that IIS does not
require any assistance from a browser to render an asp.net page. So....

You can write another application that uses System.Net.HttpWebRequest &
System.Net.HttpResponse to request the results from the page, and stream
them out to a file. Its probably about 6 lines of code to do it all.

Nick.

"Jane" <JS**@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi

I have an .aspx page thats part of a site, its usually called by a user in a browser with an ID in the querystring from where it does lots of exciting
things and database reads to produce the page - nothing too different or
exciting there.

However, what I'd like to be able to do is to have the page run without the help of a browser (say from the command line) and generate the HTML output
into a file I can pick up for later use.

Can it be done ?

Jane