Question

For one projet, I’ve to generate static .html pages, which are gonna to be published on a remote server.

I’ve to automate the creation of those files from a c# code, which takes data from a SQL Server database.

Data will be not often changed(every 4-5 month), and this website will be highly frequented.

Since I find the razor synthax of asp.net MVC3 very effective, I was wondering if it’s possible to use asp.net MVC3/Razor to generate those .html pages?

So:

1. Is this a good idea?
2. If yes, what is the good way?
3. If you think to another good manner of doing it, which way?

Thank you for the help

Edit

Regarding answers, I need to make a precision: I don’t want/need to use web caching, for a lot of reasons(load(millions of pages loaded every month), integration(we integrate our page in an optimized apache with, another part of a website), number of pages(caching will only help me if I’ve the same pages a lot of time, but I will have ~2500 pages, so with murphy’s law, except if I put a very high cache timeout, I will have to generate them often). So I really search something to generate HTML pages.

Edit 2
I just got a new constraint :/ Those template must be localized. Meaning that I should have something equivalent to the following razor code: @MyLocalizationFile.My.MyValue

Edit 3
Currently, I’m thinking of doing a dynamic website, and call some http query on it, to store the generated HTML. BUT, is there a way to avoid the http? meaning simulate an http call, specifiy the output stream and the url called(with only GET call).

Our previous load numbers were really underestimated, actually they have a little more than one million visitor each days, ~ 14 million pages loads/day.

Answer 1

I ended by creating a normal asp.net MVC website and then generate page by going on the page with a WebClient.

Like this I can have a preview of the website and I can enjoy the full power of Razor+MVC helpers.