如何在浏览器 Mvc.net 中显示 doc 文件

Question

I have a Preview button on my page. I want to display a .doc file in the browser when the user clicks on that button. I have written the code below, but it directly downloads the file instead of displaying it in the browser.

public FileResult ViewFile() {
        Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "inline;filename=;");
        return File("~/Templates/chronoExp.doc", "application/msword");
} 

Answer 1

You will need some sort of control or library that's capable of showing the file type within the browser. By default, browsers are not able to display an office document file (I believe PDF is the only document style that gets relatively decent support for embedded viewing across all browsers).

In order to do this, look for some 3rd party tools or controls that would allow for this to work. Such tools will involve passing the document to them and likely some server-side transformation and render to the control's browser display, so it's likely to be read-only.

This answer provides a decent example of using Google's document viewer within an iframe: How do I render a Word document (.doc, .docx) in the browser using JavaScript?