MVC Controller Using Response Stream

Question

I\'m using MVC 3 I would like to dynamically create a CSV file for download, but I am unsure as to the correct MVC orientated approach.

In conventional ASP.net, I wo

Answer 1

I have found one possible solution to this problem. You can simply define the action method to return an EmptyResult() and write directly to the response stream. For example:

public ActionResult RobotsText() {
    Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
    Response.Write("User-agent: *\r\nAllow: /");
    return new EmptyResult();
}

This seems to work without any problems. Not sure how 'MVC' it is...