Imar,

I'd appreciate a pointer in the right direction.

I do not believe that this topic is in your book, but I have used your excellent book to do lot of my work.

My web site is gathering data and assembling strings in a List<String>. I have formatted these Strings in a .csv format. Since I cannot write this as a file to the machine of the user, i.e., the person accessing the web site, I cannot figure out what I need to either create a file and offer it to the user for download or how to stream the Strings in the List to the user for her to save it or not as she wishes.

Would you be so kind as to tell me where to look, including what Wrox books may cover this topic?

Thanks.

Thomas

Hi there,

You can stream the content using Response.WriteFile, as explained here:

http://www.xefteri.com/articles/show.cfm?id=8

Instead of Response.WriteFile to write a file, you can also use Response.Write to write a string. As shown in this example, you need to set the content type to force the Save As dialog, and you can use AddHeader to determine the client file name.

For more examples: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...T&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Cheers,

Imar

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