Force browser to download PDF document instead of opening it

Question

I want to make the browser download a PDF document from server instead of opening the file in browser itself. I am using C#.

Below is my sample code which I used. It

Answer 1

In case if we are trying to write a bytes array then we can use below one.

            Response.Clear();
            Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
            Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=file.pdf");
            Response.BufferOutput = true;
            Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", docBytes.Length.ToString());
            Response.BinaryWrite(docBytes);
            Response.End();