What is the ContentType of Response ?

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I create a MemoryStream form a dataset:

MemoryStream sm= new MemoryStream();
dsHealth.WriteXml(sm);

I use
Response.Write()
to send this XML MemoryStream as file to client.

What is the ContentType of Response I must set?

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

If you were sending XML to be inserted into HTML, you'd set the ContentType :

Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;

But, since what you want to do is send a file, not render it, you need to serialize the objects
to a memory stream and then send the bytes in the memory stream buffer over the TCP connection.

See this article for sample code :
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread178613.html

There's more sample code at :
http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/4415/5/




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Thanks,
I still have a question.
What is the difference if I use
Response.ContentType = "application/xml";

 

[Egbert Nierop \(MVP for IIS\)]

Thanks,
I still have a question.
What is the difference if I use
Response.ContentType = "application/xml";

By default, they are the same but in theory, you could (on Windows) bind a
different clsid to them, so when the content type would be application/xml
you could open XmlSpy (for instance) and when it is text/xml IE.