Question

I have my MVC4 Actionresult return a MemoryStream

MemoryStream memory = new MemoryStream();
Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=" + outputFilename + ".pdf");
            return File(memory, "application/pdf"); 

And the Jquery

$.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            url: '/Report/Pdf/',
            async: false,
            dataType: 'html',
            success: function (result) { alert("Done!");}
        });

How Do I open a new window/tab and display the PDF file oon the Success function of the AJAX?

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to use a link, with or without target=blank (the former will allow the user to control themselves where they want to open it).

 <a href="/Report/pdf">

then there’s window.open but to my knowledge, you can’t directly target a new tab with that.