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Generating HTML in C#

I have some C# code which looks something like this:

using (StreamWriter output = new StreamWriter(filename)
{
    output.Write("<HTML>");
    output.Write("<HEAD>...</HEAD>");
    output.Write("<BODY>");
    output.Write("<TABLE>");
    output.Write( table header stuff);

    // Now we output the HTML Table rows of data
    foreach(MyData data in myDataList)
    {
        output.Write("<tr><td>" + data.column1 + "</td><td>" + data.column2 + "</td><td>" + data.column3 + "</td></tr>");
    }

    output.Write("</TABLE>");
    output.Write("</BODY>");
    output.Write("</HTML>");
}

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My question is, is there a better way of doing this? Can I somehow create a template, which looks like an HTML file, something like:

template = 
<HTML>
  <HEAD>
    ...
  </HEAD>
  <BODY>
    <TABLE>
      <tr><th>Column 1</th><th>Column 2</th><th>Column 3</th></tr>
      {magically fill in rows here from data}
    </TABLE>
  </BODY>
</HTML>

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This looks nice, all except how would I get my C# code to "magically fill in rows here from data"?

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