How to stream text documents using MVC4.0?

If you are new to MVC4.0 then this article will help you in understanding stream functionality. ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building web APIs on top of the .NET Framework. Mostly Web-Api is expressed in JSON or XML. ASP.NET Web API is an ideal platform for building RESTful applications on the .NET Framework.

using yournamespacename.Models;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDb;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Http;
//Add required namespaces here. Remove unwanted namespaces.


namespace yournamespacename.Controllers
{
public class controllername: ApiController
{
HttpResponseMessage my_response = new HttpResponseMessage();
public HttpResponseMessage Get(string path_Of_file)
{
try
{
var fs = new FileStream(path_Of_file, FileMode.Open);
var fn = Path.GetFileName(path_Of_file);
var result_val = new MultipartFormDataContent();
result_val.Add(new StreamContent(fs), "contents", fn);
my_response.Content = new StreamContent(fs);
my_response.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK;
return my_response;
}
catch (IOException)
{
return Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, "Error is encountered!");
}
}
return Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, "Error is encountered!");
}