ContentDisposition

ContentDisposition enumeration

Enumerates different ways of presenting the document at the client browser.

public enum ContentDisposition

Values

NameValueDescription
Attachment0Send the document to the browser and present an option to save the document to disk or open in the application associated with the document’s extension.
Inline1Send the document to the browser and presents an option to save the document to disk or open inside the browser.

Remarks

Note that the actual behavior on the client browser might be affected by security configuration of the browser.

Examples

Shows how to perform a mail merge, and then save the document to the client browser.

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

builder.InsertField(" MERGEFIELD FullName ");
builder.InsertParagraph();
builder.InsertField(" MERGEFIELD Company ");
builder.InsertParagraph();
builder.InsertField(" MERGEFIELD Address ");
builder.InsertParagraph();
builder.InsertField(" MERGEFIELD City ");

doc.MailMerge.Execute(new string[] { "FullName", "Company", "Address", "City" },
    new object[] { "James Bond", "MI5 Headquarters", "Milbank", "London" });

// Send the document to the client browser.
//Thrown because HttpResponse is null in the test.
Assert.Throws<ArgumentNullException>(() => doc.Save(response, "Artifacts/MailMerge.ExecuteArray.docx", ContentDisposition.Inline, null));

// We will need to close this response manually to ensure that we do not add any superfluous content to the document after saving.
Assert.Throws<NullReferenceException>(() => response.End());

See Also

ConditionalStyleType Enum ControlChar Class