Mvc download file from controller

AddHeader "content-disposition", string. SaveAs stream ; response. BinaryWrite stream. Ahmetcan Ozturk Ahmetcan Ozturk 41 2 2 bronze badges.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast what if you could invest in your favorite developer? Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Reducing the weight of our footer. Comment posted by Triven on Wednesday, July 18, AM Hi Mahesh, I am getting the following error The current request for action 'Download' on controller type mycontroller is ambiguous between the following action methods: System.

ActionResult Download on type myproject. FileResult Download System. String on type myproject. Comment posted by Triven on Wednesday, July 18, AM Hi Mahesh, First issue is resolved , but what if i want to download the file with it's actual extension.?

Comment posted by G. Thanks a lot for the article.. You saved lot of my time. Comment posted by gfgf on Tuesday, February 12, AM fggfg. Comment posted by praveen vyas on Sunday, March 17, AM really nice blog. One query: Can i Download rather than showing all the files directly.?

Else Can i give an option to download all the files?? GetFolderPath Environment. Format Path. Thanks, Sudheer Lakki. One question, please help. Can we implement the same with small modification:Instead of this on DataClasses.

Since this is my first MVC4 app I am really struggling with the syntax issues etc. Any help is appreciated. Comment posted by irshad on Friday, February 14, AM Hi Mahesh, If we want to return to view or update view after download, how can we do that? Here, we are returning "File" directly to browser.

So the Ui is not updating. Plese help. Comment posted by priya on Thursday, March 13, AM good one How can i do it? Comment posted by Ram on Wednesday, February 18, PM When I try downloading a file in a program from server, Content of file is displayed on browser instead of downloading as file. Is there any way to download file on to client system instead displaying content on the browser. But now the era has changed. Developers are switching to MVC now and so there comes a need for file downloading snippet.

Mostly file downloading is provided in two ways. Files are saved in database i. The following snippet works for both the scenarios as it uses the BYTES format to provide file as download. When I started work in MVC for the first time and when the file download task comes in, I had to Google for the solution.

So, the purpose of posting this tip is to help the naive programmer like me to get the solution in the easiest way. It simply picks the file from one folder in application hierarchy, converts it into bytes and return the result as file to View. Simply replace the FolderName with the folder in which file is present in project hierarchy, and replace filename.

Simply call this in view using the line below:. Many code snippets are available on Google, but I found this one pretty interesting and straight forward for any programmer who is a kind of newbie like myself.

Do give me your feedback, either suggestions, corrections or praises. Sign in Email. Forgot your password? Search within: Articles Quick Answers Messages. There's no dual access to DownloadAttachment method?

This will call DownloadAttachment method 2 times. How to avoid that? There is absolutely no need to use ajax for this at all. Just call window. All this is doing is making the same request twice. I have no idea why this was upvoted.

Show 4 more comments. Equals Constants. Combine Path. Message ; return Content e. GetExtension path. Raw Localizer["Report has been exported successfully"]. ReadAllBytes file1. FullName ; return File fileBytes, System. Dilshad Dilshad 1 1 1 bronze badge.