Question

ok i have a file link not in the vs 2010 project .basically i have a list page in which i want to show the files , one file each for different organization . how can i make a link to that xml file which exists outside the project

Answer 1

You’ll have to come up with a way to map to the files outside of the project, but ASP.NET MVC will handle everything correctly if you return a FileAction like so:

return File(@"C:\path\to\whatever.txt", "text/plain");