How to implement file download with AJAX and MVC

Question

I would like to provide a file download operation by using the jQuery AJAX call with some params under MVC

Example

(javascript)
function DoDownload(start         


        

Answer 1

What I ended up doing is calling my controller from my javascript like:

var url = "/mycontroller/GetFile?startDate=" + $("#mydate").val() + etc...

window.location = url;

mycontroller.cs

 public void GetFile(DateTime startDate) 
{

}

My original concern was with the date parameters. I didnt want to have to parse it.