Question

I am trying to write an aspx page which will crawl through a directory and find all the files contained within. I think I have that part down.

Is it possible to read to a string without first creating .txt files from the html and asp pages I’m reading through? I don’t want to create a ton of new files and then end up having to delete them later.

Ultimately, I’m trying to develop a tool to search through an entire directory and find all the image tags which have empty alt attributes or no alt attributes. I wrote some jQuery which can find the tags, and I have also written the part that searches through a directory.

Answer 1

Link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.streamreader.aspx

Example:
http://www.csharp-examples.net/load-text-file-to-string/
(this example shows how to work with .txt files, but I believe if you can put any other extension)

Getting all files:
http://www.csharp-examples.net/get-files-from-directory/

Edit: and don’t forgot about encoding.