How to download excel file

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Hello,

I am using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel to create the Excel file.
I am able to create the Excel file but i want to download that file after create.

I used excelworkBook.SaveAs("C:\\Users\\Test\\Desktop\\testExceldata.xlsx");

In place of that i want to download the file.

Can anyone help me on this.

Regards,
Viprat

Posted 10-May-15 23:21pm

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Tiririk · Answer 1 · 2015-05-10T23:39:00

Solution 1

1- Add Hyper Link in your .aspx file like:

ASP.NET

<asp:hyperlink id="HyperLink1" runat="server">Download</asp:hyperlink>

2- Assign the Navigate URL to your Hyperlink in code behind When you saving your workbook.

C#

HyperLink1.NavigateUrl = "your generated file location";

Posted 10-May-15 23:39pm

Tiririk

Updated 10-May-15 23:48pm

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F-ES Sitecore · Answer 2 · 2015-05-10T23:55:00

Don't use Excel interop, it isn't supported from asp.net and will be very unreliable. To send files to the client there are a few ways

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14566781/correct-usage-of-asp-net-response-transmitfile-and-response-end[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19079591/asp-net-download-file-using-httpcontext-current-response-transmitfile-in-asp-net[^]