Response.WriteFile() — not working asp net mvc 4.5

Question

I\'ve looked at many resources and the following should work, however my save as dialog box is never showing (not browser specific):

Response.ContentType = \         


        

Answer 1

Solved the issue. I was using Ajax to call this function from one of my views. This didn't work (I am not sure why), but I think it may be because I have multiple controllers. Calling this from @HTML.ActionLink() had the prompt display properly.

Answer 2

Not sure if it's your only problem, but the file name in the Content-Disposition header is supposed to be a quoted-string, so you'll need to add quotes around it, particularly since it contains spaces;

Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", 
    string.Format("attachment; filename=\"{0}\"", downloadName));

On a side note, Response.End() also flushes the buffer, so your Response.Flush() is redundant.