How to Generate a Link to download a File in asp.net MVC?

Question

Hi, I am testing Doddle Report to generate a few report form a IEnumerable object. I need to generate a Link like this

PDF - http://myserver.com/reports/ProductsReport.pdf

The Question is how do I do this?

En Stop Using Doddle Report, and generate del Excel in XML format.

Answer 1

AFAIK, there is nothing special about doing this in MVC. Create a LinkButton on your form with a handler that generates the PDF file, then redirect to the created file.

Answer 2

Check out this tutorial to return different action result.

The ASP.NET MVC framework supports several types of action results including:

• ViewResult – Represents HTML and markup.
• EmptyResult – Represents no result.
• RedirectResult – Represents a redirection to a new URL.
• JsonResult – Represents a JavaScript Object Notation result that can be used in an AJAX application.
• JavaScriptResult – Represents a JavaScript script.
• ContentResult – Represents a text result.
• FileContentResult – Represents a downloadable file (with the binary content).
• FilePathResult – Represents a downloadable file (with a path).
• FileStreamResult – Represents a downloadable file (with a file stream).

Answer 3

Something like this maybe:

<h2>List Of Reports</h2>
<ul>
    <% foreach (var report in Model){ %>
        <li><a href="<%= Html.BuildUrlFromExpression<ReportController>(r => r.Reports(report.Filename)) %>"><%=report.Filename %></a></li>
    <% } %>
</ul>

There maybe a shorter way but this works.