Ndtyjky

I am returning FilestreamResult from controller
I tried both way jquery and ajax but cant succeed for download pdf/xlsx file from controller.

Controller:

    var filestream = new FileStream(pdfoutputpath + ".pdf", FileMode.Open);

                return new FileStreamResult(filestream, "application/pdf");

View code using jquery:

function downloadpdffile(id) {

                $(".popup-overlay, .popup-content").removeClass("active");

                var url = "/WorkInstructions/WorkinstructionDownload";

                $.get(url, { id: id, fileformat: 2 }, function () {



                });

            }

using ajax:

 function downloadpdffile(id) {

                $(".popup-overlay, .popup-content").removeClass("active");

                $.ajax({

                    url: "/WorkInstructions/WorkinstructionDownload",

                    cache: false,

                    type: "GET",

                    data: { id: id, fileformat: 2 },

                    contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',

                    dataType: 'json',

                    success: function () {



                    }



                });

you can use window.open function to achieve your task if there is no problem in your controller. I used same technique in my project.

var downloadURL='@Url.Action("WorkinstructionDownload", "WorkInstructions", new { id = id, fileformat = 2})'

window.open(downloadURL)

Try putting this in your success function of your ajax call:

success: function(){

    window.location = '@Url.Action("WorkinstructionDownload", "WorkInstructions", new { id = id, fileformat = 2})';

}

although I don't think ajax is providing any value here unless I'm missing something. You could easily take the contents of that success function I posted above and put it outside of the ajax call altogether (and delete the ajax call). Or you could just simply do the following and remove the script altogether:

<a href="@Url.Action("WorkinstructionDownload", "WorkInstructions", new { id = id, fileformat = 2 })">Download Form</a>