I come from a ColdFusion background, and CF has the ability (via something 
called CFCONTENT) which allows you to serve up a file which resides outside 
your web root directory.

How do I accomplish a similar thing using ASP.net 2 (C#)?

Basically, my web app is creating a PDF document and storing it in C:\PDFS

In my app, I want to have a LinkButton which will serve up the PDF (located 
in C:\PDFS) to the user.
I DO NOT want to have the PDFs in the web app's directory structure because 
you have to log into the app to use it.  And I don't want just anyone to be 
able to link to the PDF.

Thanks in advance for any advice,
Brian

Cold Fusion, ha good times there.

In C# you would use something like

DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo("c:\\pdfFiles);
 FileInfo[] pdfFiles= dir.GetFiles("*.pdf");
 foreach(FileInfo f in pdfFiles)
 {
  Response.Write("<br><a href=" + f.Name + ">" + f.Name + "</a>");
 }



"Brian Simmons" <centraso@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message 
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>I come from a ColdFusion background, and CF has the ability (via something 
>called CFCONTENT) which allows you to serve up a file which resides outside 
>your web root directory.
>
> How do I accomplish a similar thing using ASP.net 2 (C#)?
>
> Basically, my web app is creating a PDF document and storing it in C:\PDFS
>
> In my app, I want to have a LinkButton which will serve up the PDF 
> (located in C:\PDFS) to the user.
> I DO NOT want to have the PDFs in the web app's directory structure 
> because you have to log into the app to use it.  And I don't want just 
> anyone to be able to link to the PDF.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice,
> Brian
> 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306654

Rather than using MapPath, just supply the actual directory.

"Brian Simmons" <centraso@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message 
news:%23c5n%23jB4HHA.4672@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>I come from a ColdFusion background, and CF has the ability (via something 
>called CFCONTENT) which allows you to serve up a file which resides outside 
>your web root directory.
>
> How do I accomplish a similar thing using ASP.net 2 (C#)?
>
> Basically, my web app is creating a PDF document and storing it in C:\PDFS
>
> In my app, I want to have a LinkButton which will serve up the PDF 
> (located in C:\PDFS) to the user.
> I DO NOT want to have the PDFs in the web app's directory structure 
> because you have to log into the app to use it.  And I don't want just 
> anyone to be able to link to the PDF.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice,
> Brian
> 

Also ignore the "Add the PDF File to the Project" section :)  As you want 
the file outside your web space

"Aidy"  wrote in message 
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> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306654
>
> Rather than using MapPath, just supply the actual directory.
>
> "Brian Simmons" <centraso@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message 
> news:%23c5n%23jB4HHA.4672@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>I come from a ColdFusion background, and CF has the ability (via something 
>>called CFCONTENT) which allows you to serve up a file which resides 
>>outside your web root directory.
>>
>> How do I accomplish a similar thing using ASP.net 2 (C#)?
>>
>> Basically, my web app is creating a PDF document and storing it in 
>> C:\PDFS
>>
>> In my app, I want to have a LinkButton which will serve up the PDF 
>> (located in C:\PDFS) to the user.
>> I DO NOT want to have the PDFs in the web app's directory structure 
>> because you have to log into the app to use it.  And I don't want just 
>> anyone to be able to link to the PDF.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any advice,
>> Brian
>>
>
> 

Hi Brian,

This is a piece of cake in ASP.NET since you can utlize the powerful 
functionality of .net framework components. As other members have 
suggested, you can use the System.IO classes to get binary data from the 
external file system (even on remote share folder) and write it out to 
page's response stream. e.g.

======================
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
        byte[] bytes = null;
        string path = @"d:\filestore\pdf_files\test.pdf";

        bytes = File.ReadAllBytes(path);

        Response.ClearHeaders();
        Response.ClearContent();
        Response.ContentType= "application\pdf";
        Response.AddHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; 
filename=test.pdf");

        Response.Write(bytes);
        Response.End();
}
===========

Here is a web article also mentioned this:

#Secure File Download Page
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/SecureFileDownload.asp

In addition, you can even get the file content from other storage such as 
database, webservice .....  It's quite flexible when you use the .net 
frameowork classes to deal with the things:)

Hope this also helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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Hi Brain,

Any further questions on this? If so, please feel free to post here.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.