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Q:What does the derived class in C# tell to it's parent?
A:All your base are belong to us!
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I want to implement a way for my users to download a MS Word document. We all have seen this dialog box on the web, even on this site. I'd like to use a link to start up the dialog box, such as this:
<a href="/downloads/mydocument.doc">Click to download document</a>
I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to do this. Someone out there can answer this in just 2 seconds. Please help!
A man has to believe in something. I believe I'll go fishing.
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<input type="file"> That's the basics - how the file is actually selected depends on the browser and OS.
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I'm afraid that's not the answer. As shown in the question, this is some code I found on somebody's website. It works in Netscape and in IE so I don't believe that, in general, it's browser specific.
Hey, I don't think this is hard; I just don't know the answer.
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Linking to a doc file in IE will, by default, open it in the browser - as will any file type that IE recognises the MIME type for.
Nutscrape works differently, in that it does not recognise the MIME type for .doc files as one it can display, so gives the user the option to download it.
To force the file download dialog, you can supply the file in a .zip archive, which both IE and NS will recognise as one which cannot be displayed in the browser. An alternative is to stream the file in the response, with a MIME type of "application/octet-stream" - which will force said download dialog.
ASP.NET has a useful method, Response.WriteFile[^] for just this sort of operation.
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Sorry man, not sure what i was thinking about when i replied yesterday, but totally misread your question. As Jamie noted, the easiest way of getting what you want is to change the MIME type to something that the browser won't recognize as something it should launch a specific application to handle. Usually the easiest way to do this is to just configure your server to always serve specific documents or document types as application/octet-stream, but ASP.NET and PHP both have ways of accomplishing the same thing.
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Thanks to both of you for the info. That's the way I'll do it; as a zip file.
 "Nutscape" - that's a good one; I hate Nutscape.
A man has to believe in something. I believe I'll go fishing.
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No need to zip the file. Just send headers that will tell the browser that they must download the file not open it.
Here is an example for exel files. You just have to find out the right mime-type for whatever your document is.
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Hi
I have a Page and some UserControls and am trying out the tutorial here on mastering user control communication: http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/Page_UserControl.asp but I ran into some problems with it.
I cant refer to my page classes to get the properties. I am missing a using directive or assempbly... thing. How can I make a UserControl, or a Page (SamplePage) visible in other pages? They are in the same project.
// Richard
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Hello,
I put an image control on the page and set the ImageUrl property to "~App_Data/Emblem.gif" but when I browse the page,I see that image is not shown.
When I change the ImageUrl property to "C:\Downloads\Emblem.gif" it works...
Why???
Thanks...
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Is the image inside the App_Data folder?
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can anybody help me out..its very urgent
Tanmoy Panja
Software Developer
mob:-9831970348
Intrasoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
5,Lake Temple road.
Kolkata-29.
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hi everybody ,
please if somebody can send me a link of a good website teachs ASP.Net i wanna learn it from the begening cuz i know nothing at it yet
i i need to get a good course or a training CD makes comprehension more easly
thank you
try to be good if you can't be the best
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www.siteproject.com
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How to adjust confirm dialog box to make it return the same result for both buttons: always return true - location.reload(1), no matter what button is pushed OK or Cancel. Currently if Cancel pushed, script exit.
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function init() {<br />
for (i=0;i<messages.length;i++) alert(messages[i])<br />
if (! createWSHShell() && confirm('Please click Yes to proceed')) {<br />
location.reload(1);<br />
return<br />
}<br />
if (WSHShell) goWrite()<br />
}<br />
window.onload = init;<br />
</script><br />
</head><br />
-- modified at 7:49 Friday 21st April, 2006
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No, you can't. But you can simply ignore the return value of the method.
-- modified at 8:20 Friday 21st April, 2006
Or perhaps you want to use an alert intstead, that only has one button.
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Yes, I have version with alert box already. I just wanted two buttons. What do you meant by ignoring the return value of the method?
-- modified at 9:21 Friday 21st April, 2006
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Why do you want two buttons if it doesn't matter which one you press? That's only confusing.
centrex wrote: What do you meant by ignoring the return value of the method?
If the return value shouldn't matter, just call the method and don't use the return value.
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How? Just call it, and don't use the return value. It's so basic, that if you have any problem with it, you have to explain what it is.
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I removed 'return', but when we click 'cancel', all exit, no loop.
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function init() {<br />
for (i=0;i<messages.length;i++) alert(messages[i])<br />
if (! createWSHShell() && confirm('You really need click yes')) {<br />
location.reload(1);<br />
}<br />
if (WSHShell) goWrite()<br />
}<br />
window.onload = init;<br />
</script><br />
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No, not the return value from your function, the return value from the call to the confirm method.
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Could you correct the code how this should be?
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Hardly, as the code is incomplete to start with.
What is the problem? Just call the method where you want the dialog displayed:
window.confirm('yadayada');
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