Wayne, Sure, no problem. In the Page_Load event handler, put in something like
Response.Clear(); Response.ClearHeaders(); Response.ClearContent(); Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"; byte[] pdf = GetPDF(); // this is any function that returns a bunch of bytes Response.BinaryWrite(pdf); And your good to go. Erick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [DOTNET] PDF Downloads Erik & peter, Thanks for your reply guys, a code some would be good eric if you don't mind? I'm too tired now...but will look into this tomorrow, 10 hours of .net...and I get tired...ZzZz... Cheers all -----Original Message----- From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Erick Thompson Sent: 28 May 2002 21:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] PDF Downloads Wayne, You do the same thing as you would do in ASP. Use the Response object, clear the existing headers, output the headers with your content-length, content-disposition, etc, and then spit out the bytes for the pdf. That way, you avoid meta-tags (and instead use the true headers), so it will work on more browsers. To support even more browsers, change <a href="download.aspx?docid=4" target=_new>Click</a> to <a href="download.aspx?docid=4&fake=.pdf" target=_new>Click</a> As some old, non standard browsers allow a document extension to override the mime headers. If you need a code example, let me know and I'll send you one. Erick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:16 AM Subject: [DOTNET] PDF Downloads Hi all, Great list this!! Well impressed after 4 hours!! ;) I have an asp.net app written using c#. What I'd like to do is when someone clicks a hyperlink, say: <a href="download.aspx?docid=4" target=_new>Click</a> I'd like that to open a new page, run a db query which returns the filename of that doc, and triggers the download of the pdf. After looking on the web and looking at the old "content-disposition" meta tag and the binarywrite method that were prevalent in ASP3 that we used to use, there doesn't seem to be any new way? Maybe I'm being naïve thinking there would be a new method with .NET! :) Anyway if anyone knows the best way to go about this procedure it would be much appreciated. Thanks and long live the list! Wayne Lee Evident Systems Ltd SQL/.NET Senior Developer You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
