Question

I’m trying to show test run log (text file in a windows server) to the user if he/she clicks a link.

So far I’m able to return the string but the formatting is lost (no newlines) when displayed in the browser.

public string GetTestLog(...)
{ 
    return File.ReadAllText(logFileUrl);
}

How can I keep the formatting of the string?

Answer 1

You could return the file with test/plain contentType and then it should render properly as a text file…

public ActionResult GetTestLog(...)
{
    return new FileContentResult(File.ReadAllBytes(logFileUrl), "text/plain");
}

If you are rendering it as HTML, you have to replace all newlines with <br/> or enclose it in a TEXTAREA or PRE.