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Message from discussion Capturing the HTML from an ASP.NET 2.0 page
From: "Ken Cox - Microsoft MVP" <BANSPAMkj...@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Capturing the HTML from an ASP.NET 2.0 page
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:42:44 -0800
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Thanks Teemu! That's perfect!

Ken

"Teemu Keiski" <jot...@aspalliance.com> wrote in message 
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>I responded already on Forums, but here's for reference
> **
> Hello,
>
> it complained for me about event validation , so when disabling it with 
> EnableEventValidation="False" helped. But, if you try it this way e.g 
> moving the code to overridden Render method
>
> <%@ Page Language="VB"  %>
>
> <script runat="server">
>
>    Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal writer As 
> System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
>        Const OUTPUT_FILENAME As String = "renderedpage.html"
>        Dim renderedOutput As StringBuilder = Nothing
>        Dim strWriter As IO.StringWriter = Nothing
>        Dim tWriter As HtmlTextWriter = Nothing
>        Dim outputStream As IO.FileStream = Nothing
>        Dim sWriter As IO.StreamWriter = Nothing
>        Dim filename As String
>        Dim nextPage As String
>
>        Try
>            'create a HtmlTextWriter to use for rendering the page
>            renderedOutput = New StringBuilder
>            strWriter = New IO.StringWriter(renderedOutput)
>            tWriter = New HtmlTextWriter(strWriter)
>
>            MyBase.Render(tWriter)
>
>            'save the rendered output to a file
>            filename = Server.MapPath(".") & "\" & OUTPUT_FILENAME
>            outputStream = New IO.FileStream(filename, _
>                                          IO.FileMode.Create)
>            sWriter = New IO.StreamWriter(outputStream)
>            sWriter.Write(renderedOutput.ToString())
>            sWriter.Flush()
>
>            ' redirect to another page
>            '  NOTE: Continuing with the display of this page will result 
> in the
>            '       page being rendered a second time which will cause an 
> exception
>            '        to be thrown
>            nextPage = "DisplayMessage.aspx?" & _
>                       "PageHeader=Information" & "&" & _
>                       "Message1=HTML Output Saved To " & OUTPUT_FILENAME
>             'Response.Redirect(nextPage)
>            'Response.Write(renderedOutput.ToString())
>
>            writer.Write(renderedOutput.ToString())
>        Finally
>
>            'clean up
>            If (Not IsNothing(outputStream)) Then
>                outputStream.Close()
>            End If
>
>            If (Not IsNothing(tWriter)) Then
>                tWriter.Close()
>            End If
>
>            If (Not IsNothing(strWriter)) Then
>                strWriter.Close()
>            End If
>        End Try
>    End Sub
>
>
> </script>
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
> <head id="Head1" runat="server">
>    <title>Capture Page</title>
> </head>
> <body>
>    <form id="form1" runat="server">
>    <div>
>        <asp:dropdownlist id="DropDownList1" runat="server">
>            <asp:listitem>red</asp:listitem>
>            <asp:listitem>blue</asp:listitem>
>            <asp:listitem>green</asp:listitem>
>        </asp:dropdownlist></div>
>    </form>
> </body>
>
> Is that what you are looking for?
>
>
> Teemu
>