Using Hyperlink Control for file download

[rh]

Hi,

I am using a Hyperlink control that links to an Excel file. I would like
the "File Download" dialog box to appear instead of the Excel file
automatically opening within the browser.

What do I need to do? Thanks in advance.

 

[Winista]

Instead of providing direct link to XLS file, let the link goto an ASP.Net
page. On that page, read your XLS file from file system and stream it to the
response stream. And set content-type header of response to "octet-stream".
That should do it.

Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;
filename=myexcelfile.xls");
Response.WriteFile(fileObject);
Response.End();