Download file using ajax in mvc

 · Show activity on this post. i try to download a pdf file on button click via ajax call using ASP MVC model when i click on my button, nothing happen but when i add the controller methode on the url my file is downloaded. i want to download it only on button click only. JS: $ ('#PrintTimeSheet').click (function () { $.ajax ({ type: 'POST', url Reviews: 3.  · Download file in mvc using ajax @MikesDotnetting has written a good article on this How to upload and download the file in bltadwin.ru mvc. you can also use following code. [HttpGet] public FileResult DownloadDataFile(long widgetId) { using (var mem = new MemoryStream()) { // Create spreadsheet based on widgetId.  · The following code will help you to create the pdf/excel file in server and allow to download in browser through ajax call. Controller for creating the pdf/excel file. public async Task CardStatusReportExport (ReportFilterInputModel cardStatusReportInputModel, string type, string sortOrder) { bltadwin.ruType.

Once the file has been created on the server pass back the path to the file (or just the filename) as the return value to your AJAX call and then set the JavaScript bltadwin.ruon to this URL which will prompt the browser to download the file. The below code snippet shows how we can return a file just plain from an action without using action results. Returning files through action results MVC framework eases the job of returning files through its built-in action results. We don't need to worry about adding any headers in the response the action results will take care. FileResult. Here Mudassar Ahmed Khan has explained with an example, how to download file in AJAX Response (Success) using jQuery. The file will be downloaded as BLOB using jQuery AJAX and XmlHttpRequest (XHR) request and then the file will be downloaded using the Response inside the Success event handler of jQuery AJAX function. TAGs: Excel, AJAX, jQuery, Word, PDF.

I want to download a zip file bltadwin.ru files by ajax call. Here is my code. Only the zip file is not downloading, the rest are ok. public FileResult DownloadZip(string[] Paths) { string. As you've already found out, you can't download files using ajax. When using ajax everything happens in javascript and js doesn't have write access to your hard drive so while it can process the request it can't do anything meaningful with the results. When you use the Ajax call in bltadwin.ru MVC, you can just return a JSON object but not a file. If you want to do that, you need to create and save the file in server and return its path to Ajax. After that, you can call a redirect link for downloading the file, because this is a temp file, so you should need to delete it after download.