In ASP.NET, how to get the browser to download string content into a file? (C#)

Question

I would like to create a text file for export/download, like a *.csv, from an ASP.NET application. I know about Response.TransmitFile, but I want to do this without creating

Answer 1

A file you haven't saved yet is just a string variable or a MemoryStream. But for large amounts of data you probably don't want to keep it all in memory. What do you want to do with this "file" once you have it?