Opening word/pdf document in another window

[indian143]

Hi All, I am saving a word document in database as bytes and in another column I am saving the file name, I am providing a link button or an anchor tag for the user to select when the user clicks on it the user should be able to see the file opened in another browser window. Can you anybody please help me on it a little bit any code snippet, a link or even a suggestion would help me a lot. I am also searching but asking if somebody can guide me in a right direction. Thanks in advance.

Thanks, Abdul Aleem "There is already enough hatred in the world lets spread love, compassion and affection."

[Lost User]

Plenty of suggestions at show word file in browser - Google Search[^].

[Blikkies]

You can add target="_blank" to you hyperlink button and set the button to navigate to a generic handler that will get the file from your database and display it.

[indian143]

Hi I tried this way but it shows me the document in binary format

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Investigator _objInvestigator = new Investigator();
InvestigatorService _objinvestigatorService = new InvestigatorService();

        int InvestigatorId;
        InvestigatorId = ((Session\["InvestigatorId"\] != null) && int.TryParse(Session\["InvestigatorId"\].ToString(), out InvestigatorId)) ? InvestigatorId : 0;
        \_objInvestigator = \_objinvestigatorService.GetByInvestigatorId(InvestigatorId);
        if (\_objInvestigator != null)
        {
            if ((\_objInvestigator.CvFile != null) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(\_objInvestigator.CvFileNameWithExt))
            {
                String ext = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(\_objInvestigator.CvFileNameWithExt);
               
                    Response.ContentType = "application/" + ext;
                    Response.AddHeader("content-length", \_objInvestigator.CvFile.Length.ToString());
                    Response.BinaryWrite(\_objInvestigator.CvFile);
               
                   
            }
        }
        
    }  

And this the code for link button click

protected void loadFile_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Write(string.Format("<script>window.open('{0}','_blank');</script>", "TheFile.aspx"));
}

Any suggestions please?

Thanks, Abdul Aleem "There is already enough hatred in the world lets spread love, compassion and affection."

[Blikkies]

what is the file's extension? .doc or .docx I think it is your content type that is incorrect If the extension is .doc, the content type should be application/msword and if your extension is .docx, the content type should be application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

[indian143]

The content type can be three 1. doc, 2. docx and then .pdf but I think I pretty much got answer from you but if you can just give me whats the type for the pdf. Thanks buddy. :)

Thanks, Abdul Aleem "There is already enough hatred in the world lets spread love, compassion and affection."

[indian143]

Just asking is there no way that I can give a rating for your answer? If there is any I would like to give you excellent answer rating :)

Thanks, Abdul Aleem "There is already enough hatred in the world lets spread love, compassion and affection."

[indian143]

Hey buddy still docx is showing binary data doesn't look good to humans man. Here is the code, can you please let me know where did I do mistake?

Investigator _objInvestigator = new Investigator();
InvestigatorService _objinvestigatorService = new InvestigatorService();

        int InvestigatorId;
        InvestigatorId = ((Session\["InvestigatorId"\] != null) && int.TryParse(Session\["InvestigatorId"\].ToString(), out InvestigatorId)) ? InvestigatorId : 0;
        \_objInvestigator = \_objinvestigatorService.GetByInvestigatorId(InvestigatorId);
        if (\_objInvestigator != null)
        {
            if ((\_objInvestigator.CvFile != null) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(\_objInvestigator.CvFileNameWithExt))
            {
                String ext = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(\_objInvestigator.CvFileNameWithExt);

                //string path = Server.MapPath("~\\\\E:\\\\karthikeyan\\\\venky\\\\pdf\\\\aaaa.PDF");
                //WebClient client = new WebClient();
                //Byte\[\] buffer = client.DownloadData(path);
                //if (buffer != null)
                //{

                if (ext.ToLower() == ".doc")
                {
                    Response.ContentType = "application/" + "msword";
                    Response.AddHeader("content-length", \_objInvestigator.CvFile.Length.ToString());
                    Response.BinaryWrite(\_objInvestigator.CvFile);
                }
                else if(ext.ToLower() == ".docx")
                {
                    Response.ContentType = "application/" + "vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document";
                    Response.AddHeader("content-length", \_objInvestigator.CvFile.Length.ToString());
                    Response.BinaryWrite(\_objInvestigator.CvFile);
                }
                else if (ext.ToLower() == ".pdf")
                {
                    Response.ContentType = "application/" + ext;
                    Response.AddHeader("content-length", \_objInvestigator.CvFile.Length.ToString());
                    Response.BinaryWrite(\_objInvestigator.CvFile);
                }
                   
            }
        }

Thanks, Abdul Aleem "There is already enough hatred in the world lets spread love, compassion and affection."

[Blikkies]

Are you able to open pdf files or is it also showing binnary?

[indian143]

Yes it was showing in binary but I resolved it buddy

Thanks, Abdul Aleem "There is already enough hatred in the world lets spread love, compassion and affection."