Downloading Files

The following block of code allows you to download files automatically to the user desktop

//Open the file FileStream fs = File.Open(@"C:\filename.txt", FileMode.Open); //Create a btye array byte[] bytBytes = new byte[fs.Length]; try { //find the length of the file and read the file string longint = fs.Length.ToString(); int temp = int.Parse(longint); fs.Read(bytBytes, 0, temp); fs.Close(); //Parse the file so that it will be download to user's desktop Response.AddHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=C:\filename.txt") Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"; Response.BinaryWrite(bytBytes); Response.End(); } catch (Exception er) { //In event of error fs.Close(); Console.WriteLine(er.Message); }