Response.ContentType for MS Excel

e_deb_2002 · 01-15-2008, 12:15 AM

Hi,

I am developing an Asp.Net application in VS2005.
It is running on Asp.Net Development Server provided with VS2005.

I am trying to download a page in MS Excel format. I have tried the following Response.ContentType values:

application/x-msexcel
application/excel
application/x-excel
application/vnd.ms-excel
application/msexcel
application/ms-excel

But the page is just displayed with no controls in it. and when I try to see the source,

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

is all that is there.

But there is a gridview that was to be there.

I can't identify where the problem is, whether it is because of the server on which I am running on, or the contenttype values.

01-15-2008, 12:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
e_deb_2002 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: India Posts: 9 OS: windows 2000 My System	Response.ContentType for MS Excel Hi, I am developing an Asp.Net application in VS2005. It is running on Asp.Net Development Server provided with VS2005. I am trying to download a page in MS Excel format. I have tried the following Response.ContentType values: application/x-msexcel application/excel application/x-excel application/vnd.ms-excel application/msexcel application/ms-excel But the page is just displayed with no controls in it. and when I try to see the source, HTML Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD> <BODY></BODY></HTML> is all that is there. But there is a gridview that was to be there. I can't identify where the problem is, whether it is because of the server on which I am running on, or the contenttype values.