Open a text file

I want to open a file in my web page.

Here's the situation, I have encrypted passwords in my employee database. I bring back the username, date changed, and the encrypted password.

I decrypt the passwords and put everything in a text file on the local machine.

Now all I want to do, is open the text file so the user can view the text document.

I'm using vb .Net 2002. The file name is C:\Passwords.doc

Can someone tell me the best way to open this file?

I tried shell and process.start but it won't seem to open.

ThanksI decrypt the passwords and put everything in a text file on the local machine.

How do you save the file on the local machine? The only way that is possible is through the user 'downloading' the file to save it locally, or using a browser plug-in, which they must install.

When the user downloads it, they can also click 'open' instead of 'save', and see the text file immediately. If they save it, then they must navigate to it and open it themselves.

The browser will not allow you to execute files or shells without an integrated assembly (plug-in), which the user would have to install first by downloading it from your website. Otherwise, websites could launch your disk degragger or format your c-drive when you visited them.