Response.contenttype for pdf in asp.net

All you can do is giving the browser a hint with the disposition "inline" or "attachment". Jochen Arndt 4-Dec am. Again: You can't control that from the server side. It's the user's preference if he opens a PDF delivered inline within the browser or using an external viewer. Add your solution here. OK Paste as. Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML. Existing Members Sign in to your account. This email is in use. Do you need your password?

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Insults are not welcome. OutputStream ; pdfDoc. Add Text ; pdfWriter. SetCacheability HttpCacheability. NoCache ; Response. End ; If you want to download file, add below line, after this Response.

Kashyap Diwan Kashyap Diwan 11 1 1 bronze badge. Harish Mashetty Harish Mashetty 1 1 silver badge 13 13 bronze badges. Use this code. This works like a champ. Start ;. Polo Guy Polo Guy 47 1 1 bronze badge. I tried this method and it works really well, thanks : — JohnnyBizzle. Your C code runs on the server.

Therefore, Process. Start starts a process on the server, not your computer. It is fundamentally impossible for you to start a process directly on the client. Thanks, Works for me. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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Glad it helped! Thanks for letting me know. Thanks, great article Scott Loading Glad it was useful Raphael! Thanks a lot Scott!!! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. GetFileAsync id ;. Sunday, November 12, PM. User posted Cant you combine both the approaches Response. End ; You might have tried this allready..

User posted If I add the Response. Monday, November 13, AM. This works properly on one client but not another. I tried content lenght and that did not fix it.

User posted I upgraded to IE 7. What is interesting if put in a false application of vnd. I cannot get Acrobat plugin to fire in IE using Response. WriteFile nor Response. If I point to the actual pdf file then Acrobat fires in IE and properly displays the document. User posted In my previous project I used Response.

Monday, November 13, PM. User posted Fixed the problem by uninstalling Adobe and reinstalling. This was a problem on one client only. Program worked fine on other clients. My thought is this was a problem with the registry.

If you pass an extention e. It worked fine for the extention lookup but the Content-Type lookup failed. Thing is on visual inspection the registy of the working on non-working client looked identical.