A tool to publish the contents of a folder and all its sub folders as a HTML page with hyperlinks to all the files. This tool is written in VB.net and requires the dot net framework. The tool allows the user to modify the contents of the HTML file before saving. The user can also choose not to scan the contents of the sub folders of a given folder. This tool has been developed to cater to academicians who want to publish course content on intranet web sites.

This tool was developed to cater to a personal need to publish the contents of a folder on a departmental intranet HTTP server. Most college professors and instructors want to publish course material on their college or university intranets. LMS systems provide a systematic approach to publishing course content. All colleges, however, have not implemented such systems. I have personally felt the need for a simple windows explorer plugin that would create a html page with hyperlinks to all files in folder.

The proposed tool will be implemented in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2005. The dot net framework provides the IO namespace that has all the classes necessary to enumerate all files within a given folder. The choice of scanning all sub directories will be left as an option to the user. The default behaviour will be not to scan all sub directories.