How to Generate a Link to download a File in asp.net MVC?

Question

I am testing Doddle Report to generate a few report form a IEnumerable object. I need to generate a Link like this

PDF - http://myserver.com/reports/ProductsRepo         


        

Answer 1

Check out this tutorial to return different action result.

The ASP.NET MVC framework supports several types of action results including:

• ViewResult – Represents HTML and markup.
• EmptyResult – Represents no result.
• RedirectResult – Represents a redirection to a new URL.
• JsonResult – Represents a JavaScript Object Notation result that can be used in an AJAX application.
• JavaScriptResult – Represents a JavaScript script.
• ContentResult – Represents a text result.
• FileContentResult – Represents a downloadable file (with the binary content).
• FilePathResult – Represents a downloadable file (with a path).
• FileStreamResult – Represents a downloadable file (with a file stream).