Stream Text File

[Slonoma]

Hi all.
For a C# webapp, I'm having a hard time streaming a text file. Heres my code:

DateTime fileDate = (DateTime) Session["ExportFileDate"];

Response.Clear();
Response.Buffer= true;
Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
Response.Charset = "";
this.EnableViewState = false;

ArrayList list = Orders.ListOrdersByDate(fileDate);
string file = GenerateOrderFile(list);

Response.Write(file.ToString());
Response.End();

It works great, except instead of creating a file to be saved as text, when the file opens it defaults to file.aspx. It is still a text file, but I would much rather it have the default Save As be a .txt file and not have the user have to change to Save As (All Files) and then have to manually type the .txt. Is there a a quick way to do this?

Thanks,
Slo-No


The trouble with programmers is that they get high on their own supply. -Dimandja

 

[stravis]

Someone should shoot me for trying to answer this question, but have you setup a mime type for the txt extension "text/plain" mime type in IIS? This may solve your problem or perhaps you have aspx set as for the text/plain mime type?

 

[Slonoma]

I would think that the default setting for .txt in IIS would be notepad.

I went ahead and added it anyway, but to no avail.

Thanks for the suggestion though.
Slo-No

The trouble with programmers is that they get high on their own supply. -Dimandja