I'm converting an older asp.net intranet application over to .net 4.5. One of the parts I'm having trouble with is supposed to open a string containing CSV data into Excel.
No matter how I attempt to accomplish this, the resulting excel document contains the contents of the website rather than the text I supplied.
On an additional note, I currently have the aspx in a web project, while the utility/business classes reside in another. I don't know if that is part of the problem.
Please help me out with this issue.
CSV sample:
string text = "\"Year\", \"Make\", \"Model\", \"Length\"\n\"1997\", \"Ford\", \"E350\", \"2.34\"\n\"2000\", \"Mercury\", \"Cougar\", \"2.38\""
Code Sample:
private static void OpenCsvFile(string text, string name)
{
var httpContext = HttpContext.Current;
httpContext.Response.Clear();
httpContext.Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
httpContext.Response.Charset = "";
httpContext.Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + name + ".csv");
httpContext.Response.Write(text);
httpContext.Response.Flush();
httpContext.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest();
}
Update: The resulting file contains the website contents rather than the CSV text.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1">
<title>
"My WebSite"
</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link href="css/style.css" type="text/css" title="WebSite" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="Main.aspx" id="form1" name="form1">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="container">
<td class="logo" onclick="window.location='Main.aspx';">
<div class="logoDisplay">
<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="" width="280px" height="67px" />
</div>
</td>
... etc
The answer is to reboot your PC. Yes, it's working now without any further code changes. I just can't believe I spent so long trying to get this to work properly.
Thank you for trying to help, Tim.