[2005] Force download prompt for xml file

I'm new to ASP .NET and Visual Basic .NET.

I'm sure this has been asked but a quick search didn't bring anything up for me that helped. What I want to do is convert a XmlDocument into a xml file and have it prompt the user to download the xml file when a button is clicked.

I don't know where to begin so any examples of how to convert a XmlDocument to a xml file and prompt to save that file would be great. Thanks

I think you need to change content type association while sending the XML document from server to client side. This article might help you.

Once you write the XmlDocument to disk, you can do Response.WriteFile().

Generally all XML files open up in the browser as their MIME types are defined. So I guess Response.WriteFile() will open the XML in browser (am I wrong?) but what OP wanted was to force download the file.

Like this:

Code:

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        Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
        Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=myfile.xml");
        Response.WriteFile("C:\\Documents and Settings\\blah\\Desktop\\myfile.xml");

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