Create HTML

shadowpug · April 7th, 2004, 07:30 AM

I currently generate statistical information and display it in labels and textboxes on a windows form. Instead of displaying it on a form I want to programattically generate HTML and then spawn a browser to display it.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to generate HTML programatically?

planoie · April 7th, 2004, 08:28 AM

Sounds like what you need to do is generate the HTML...

sHtml = "<html>........</html>"

then save the generated string to a file. I'm not sure how you launch the file to a browser, perhaps someone else can pick this up.

Snib · April 7th, 2004, 08:33 AM

Something like this (forgive me if I'm off, I know little about VB.NET):

Code:

ShellExecute(Me.Handle.ToInt32, "open", "c:\DocumentPreview.htm", vbNullString, vbNullString, SW_SHOW)

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shadowpug · April 8th, 2004, 02:43 AM

Actually, to invoke a browser use the following:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(URL as string)

Planoie,

I tried simply generating a large text string but got a bunch of errors because inside the HTML there are quotations that mess up the declraration of a text string :(

katsarosj · April 8th, 2004, 09:20 AM

Replace the single quotes in your text string with double quotes.

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shadowpug · April 9th, 2004, 07:53 AM

Thanks!

Next question.

Does anyone know how I can embed a browser into my windows form? Instead of spawning a new browser instance, I would rather display the HTML page in my windows form. Any ideas or links to sample code?

shadowpug · April 9th, 2004, 08:13 AM

Disregard, I found a webbrowser control to use.