Autolink automatically generates a list of hyperlinks. You provide a list of htm pages (text file) and a list of page names (text file) as inputs and autolink creates an output file that contains a list of hyperlinks that you can embed in your source code.
Detail
This is a very very simple utility. It was written in ASP.NET. Its main function is to auto generate a list of hyperlinks (URLs). Recently i came across a simple project which required me to generate a list of urls for approximately 2000 files. Obviously it was a tedious task to do manually and could have wasted a lot of my precious time. I was certain that i would find a utility on the net to accomplish this simple task but to my surprise there was no such utility. After searhing internet comprehensively i found a small application that did this task but guess what, it's price was $395. So there was no solution left but to write a simple utility of my own. Code is very simple. I used streamReader class to read and write to the files. I used two files. One file contained list of pages and the other contained names of files. For example, list1 contains:
this_is_html_file1.htm
this_is_html_file2.htm
this_is_html_file3.htm
list2 contains:
this is html file1
this is html file2
this is html file3
You must be thinking that creating these files is a tedious job in itself. Yes, you are right! Its difficult to create these files manually but there is a solution to every problem and solution to our problem is using a DIR command in DOS mode. For example, folder contains 2000 files in it. How will you generate a list of files from this folder? Simple! Use following command at DOS Prompt:
