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copied!<p>There is no way to guarantee that a particular application will be opened when a user clicks a link / button on a web page. The application that is opened is determined by the user's browser and operating system settings.</p> <p>As a developer you can specify the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MIME type</a> of the file that you are returning. By doing so you are telling the user's browser what file type is contained in the response. W3Schools provides a pretty good <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_mimeref.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MIME type by content type list</a> and <a href="http://filext.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FILExt</a> also provides the MIME type for the files it lists.</p> <p>Assuming you specify the appropriate MIME content-type you can be sure the user's browser and operating system will open the file in the "appropriate" application according to their settings. Since you want to open a Word Document file the appropriate MIME content-type will be one of the following:</p> <p><pre> <strong>Extension Type/sub-type</strong> docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document doc application/msword </pre></p> <p>How and where you specify the content-type largely depends on the ASP.NET application type you are working with. If you are writing a ASP.NET Webforms application you'd change the MIME type of the Response object in the Page_Load method. In an ASP.NET MVC application you'd do so in a controller action. In either case the specific line of code is the same.</p> <pre><code>Response.ContentType = "application/msword"; </code></pre>

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