How can I download a .docx file?

Question

Hi there,

I'm trying to download a .docx file, but I don't have the application for it. I don't want to open the file, I just want to download it as a .docx. I don't have OneDrive either. Every time I try to download it, it downloads as a XML. This ruins all the formatting put into the file. How can I download the .docx format?

Answer 1

If you do not mind using a 3rd party library, you can download Spire.Doc (also available on NuGet) and referce the DLLs in your project, and use the following C# code snippet to donwload a Word document from a URL.

using Spire.Doc;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;

namespace DownloadfromURL
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Document doc = new Document();
            WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
            using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(webClient.DownloadData("document's url")))
            {
                doc.LoadFromStream(ms, FileFormat.Docx);
            }
            doc.SaveToFile("result.docx", FileFormat.Docx);
        }
    }
}