Opening a chm file from the web application

[sunil]

Hi all,
I have a web application in which I have to open a "chm" file that
exists on the local file system. I am able to open other files such as
PDF, DOC files by writing the Response's output stream.
But I do not exactly know the Response.ContentType for chm files.
I have used the following code to handle the case for chm files

System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(this.Path);
FileInfo file = new FileInfo(this.Path);
Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-htmlhelp";
Response.WriteFile(file.FullName);
sr.Close();

But this is not opening the document.
Any help?

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:

But this is not opening the document.

You're entering the twilight zone. :-)
That's a thorny area.

Rick Strahl has published an explanation and possible workarounds, but "the only
realistic solution seems to be to copy the help files to a local drive and run
them from there", he counsels.

http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/2928.aspx


Juan T. Llibre, asp.net MVP
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Hi all,
I have a web application in which I have to open a "chm" file that
exists on the local file system. I am able to open other files such as
PDF, DOC files by writing the Response's output stream.
But I do not exactly know the Response.ContentType for chm files.
I have used the following code to handle the case for chm files

System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(this.Path);
FileInfo file = new FileInfo(this.Path);
Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-htmlhelp";
Response.WriteFile(file.FullName);
sr.Close();

But this is not opening the document.
Any help?