Response.TransmitFile not working with Internet Explorer 11

Question

My website works fine with FireFox, and it worked fine with Internet Explorer too up until a few weeks ago (at least).  Now, with Internet Explorer 11 (running on Windows 8 Pro 64 bit), when I click the button to download the file (a Word document), nothing happens.  In FireFox, a dialog is presented asking the user to save or open the file.

What is going on???  I have been having nothing but problems with IE11.  Extremely poor performance all around.

HELP!!!!

Here is the C# code in question:

Response.TransmitFile(filename_goes_here)
Response.Flush();
HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest();

The three lines above are wrapped in a try/catch, and no exception is thrown.

Answer 1

 I just tried using my laptop, which is also running Windows 8.1 and IE-11, and it works fine! BUT, the laptop has a different version of IE-11!  On my desktop I am running 11.0.9600.16521 and on my laptop it is 11.0.9600.16518.

Answer 2

This is a web-related question. THose are best asked in the ASP.Net forum:

http://forums.asp.net/

---

Let's talk about MVVM: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/b1a8bf14-4acd-4d77-9df8-bdb95b02dbe2 Please mark post as helpfull and answers respectively.

Answer 3

Turns out that it's an IE11 problem. I can't download files ANYWHERE....

Answer 4

I rolled back my machine three weeks and everything works fine now. I then applied all the Windows updates again, and it is still working fine. I have no idea what caused my installation of IE 11 to stop being able to download files.

Answer 5

Please just remove Response.Flush(); from your code!

Hope this works!

;)

Answer 6

This worked!...Thank you!