Question

We’re building a CMS. The site will be built and managed by the users in aspx pages, but we would like to create a static site of HTML’s. The way we’re doing it now is with code I found here that overloads the Render method in the Aspx Page and writes the HTML string to a file. This works fine for a single page, but the thing with our CMS is that we want to automatically create a few HTML pages for a site right from the start, even before the creator has edited anything in the system. Does anyone know of any way to do this?

Answer 1

Calling the Render method is still pretty simple. Just create an instance of your page, create a stub WebContext along with the WebRequest object, and call the Render method of the page. You are then free to do whatever you want with the results.

Alternatively, write a little curl or wget script to download and store whichever pages you want to make static.