Open documents in memory in new window

Hi there,

I have a some code to open a speicific path in a new window

Code:

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DbUtils.StartTransaction();

            VwPersonExerciseIDResultRecord rec = VwPersonExerciseIDResultView.GetRecord("ID=" + this.ID1.Text);

            string filename = rec.FileName;
            byte[] contents = rec.FileContent;
                 
            // Store the contents of attachment temporarily in a file.
            // Delete the temporary file if it exists already.
            // Save to physicalPath
            string physicalPath = this.Page.Request.PhysicalApplicationPath + @"MyResults\" + filename;

            if (System.IO.File.Exists(physicalPath))
            {               
                System.IO.File.Delete(physicalPath);
            }
            // Create the temporary file and store contents.
            System.IO.FileStream fs;
            fs = new System.IO.FileStream(physicalPath, System.IO.FileMode.CreateNew);
            System.IO.BinaryWriter bw;
            bw = new System.IO.BinaryWriter(fs);
            bw.Write(contents);
            bw.Flush();
            bw.Close();
            fs.Close();
           
            string filepath = this.Page.Request.Url.OriginalString;
            filepath = filepath.Replace("Result.aspx", filename);
            filepath += "#" + rec.Bookmark;

            ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(this.Page, this.Page.GetType(), "openPolicy", @"window.open('" + filepath + "','Policy')", true);

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Now what i want is to write the filecontent to a window and add the bookmark.

Many thanks for any suggestion,
Figa

Would it not be easier to store that information in the database, and add the bookmark using a querystring value that represents the id of the policy stored in the database - then just dump the html stored into a literal control.

/policy.aspx?policyid=32123"

Thats is what im doing right now...

rec is a record from the database, filecontent is data, filename is the filename(duh)

(data can be a word document, txt file, html file)

But i have to convert the stored data in a file open a new window, and show the file in this new window. What i want is opening this data without first saving it to a file on the server.

Thanks for the response, Figa

Follow up:

Instead of opening a new page, i added a page to my project and streamed the document there in the page_load event of that page. This way you can get it done from memory:

Code:

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DatabaseRecord rec = GetYourRecordHere();
            string filename = rec.FileName;
            byte[] contents = rec.FileContent;
           
            if(filename.EndsWith(".doc"))
                Page.Response.ContentType = "application/msword";
            else if(filename.EndsWith(".txt"))
                Page.Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
            else if(filename.EndsWith(".pdf"))
                Page.Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
            else if(filename.EndsWith(".jpg") || filename.EndsWith(".jpeg"))
                Page.Response.ContentType = "image/jpeg";
            else if (filename.EndsWith(".gif"))
                Page.Response.ContentType = "image/gif";
            else if(filename.EndsWith(".xls"))
                Page.Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel";

            Page.Response.OutputStream.Write(contents, 0, contents.Length);
            Page.Response.End();

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This works in IE, not FireFox still trying to get that to work

Another follow-up...

This is really annoying, everytime i want to stream an office document to the page in the page_load event, the browser opens and closes immediately. But when i test locally everything works fine.
Also when i open the page directly, without a link, the explorer pops up a window which states if i want to open, save or cancel the page, which is fine.
But when i do it with a link, it opens and closes. Is there a way to "prepare" the browser a specific document is being loaded?

(I tried ContentType..didnt work for office documents)