I would like to ask, how can I open savefile dialog in mvc razor4?
I wanted use normal savefile dialog but I have found out that it can be used only in Win forms. So I search in google but didn't find good solution. Only that there is
<input type="file" />
but I think it is problematic to overwrite his look.
I have something like this:
<a href="@Url.Action("ExcelExport","Home")"><img src="@Url.Content("~/images/excel_icon.png")" id="excel-export-img" /></a>
I want to display Savefile dialog after click to that.
Know anyone about some materials about it or how to do it?
Thak you.
Keep in mind that HTTP doesn't necessarily have a concept of "files." It has requests and responses. And each of those has headers and content. So what you want is to return the contents of a file with a header indicating that it is a "file" and should be treated as such. It's still up to the browser how to actually handle it, of course.
The way to do this in ASP.NET MVC is to return a File() from your controller action. Something like this:
return File("SomeFile.xlsx", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet");
There are, of course, several overloads for the File() method, some of which accept a byte array or stream instead of the name of an actual server-side file.
