Exercise
Sitemap creator
Objetive
A "sitemap" is a file that webmasters can use to inform Google about the webpages that their website includes, with the aim of achieving better search engine rankings.
You must create a program that displays the contents of a preliminary "sitemap" on the screen. The sitemap should be generated from the list of ".html" files in the current folder, with a "weekly" frequency and the current date as the "last modification" date.
Code
Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.IO
Class SitemapCreator
Private Shared Sub Main()
Dim ListHtml As List = GetHtml()
CreateSiteMap(ListHtml, "weekly", DateTime.Now)
End Sub
Private Shared Sub CreateSiteMap(ByVal listHtml As List, ByVal frecuency As String, ByVal lastUpdated As DateTime)
Try
Dim writer As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(File.Create("sitemap.xml"))
writer.WriteLine("")
writer.WriteLine("")
For Each html As String In listHtml
writer.WriteLine("")
writer.WriteLine("" & html & "")
writer.WriteLine("" & lastUpdated.ToShortDateString() & "")
writer.WriteLine("" & frecuency & "")
writer.WriteLine("")
Next
writer.WriteLine("")
writer.Close()
Catch
Console.WriteLine("Error writing sitemap.")
End Try
End Sub
Private Shared Function GetHtml() As List
Dim ListHtml As List = New List()
Dim files As String() = Directory.GetFiles(".")
For Each file As String In files
Dim extension As String = Path.GetExtension(file)
Select Case extension
Case ".html", ".htm"
ListHtml.Add(file.Substring(2))
End Select
Next
Return ListHtml
End Function
End Class