Question

I have an ASP.NET web application. At some step I create a text file and store it in a folder on the server. I do this on the server code. But then just after getting done with creating the file I want to download that file to client computer. Is this even possible? I know about John Culviner’s jquery filedownload plugin. But after reviewing it I understood that the file to download must be in the same directory where the web site itself resides – like http://www.mywebsite.com/downloads/text1.txt. But I would like to put the created files into some other directory. I feel that ftp will come into play here but don’t exactly know how. Could you please guide me a little.

Answer 1

What you will want is to use the Response.TransmitFile method in your backend code rather than javascript.

 Dim FileLocation As String = "C:/File.csv"
            Response.ContentType = "application/csv"
            Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=" + FileLocation )
            Response.TransmitFile(FileLocation )
            Response.End()

So once you’ve created your file simply use that code, and you will automatically (it will ask them if they want to obviously) start a file download of that file on the clients computer.