Q:

ASP.Net MVC 5 Render PDF in Browser from Byte[] C#

I am working with Kendo MVC and I want to render an uploaded PDF into a Tabstrip. 
When getting the PDF file to show in the tab, I am calling my controller and subsequent service, getting the file data as a byte array and returning data into its respective div using the following code. 
public FileStreamResult GetRxPdf(int prescriptionId)
{
    var retVal = _service.GetRxPdf(prescriptionId);
    byte[] byteArray = retVal.FileData;
    MemoryStream pdfStream = new MemoryStream();
    pdfStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
    pdfStream.Position = 0;
    return new FileStreamResult(pdfStream, retVal.ContentType);
}

The rendered output is not the PDF, but is as follows

%PDF-1.7 %���� 1 0 obj <>/OutputIntents[<>] /Metadata 148 0 R/ViewerPreferences 149 0 R>> endobj 2 0 obj <> endobj 3 0 obj <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 7 0 R 10 0 R 11 0 R 21 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 595.32 841.92] /Contents 4 0 R/StructParents 0>> endobj 4 0 obj <> stream x��]Ys�F~W��ɔ5�\�I�֒��[9[�yH�@S�̲�����7���=Ip��P�TE��3������1�>[,��&�e��7�ϖ��������������?�N/&���r~w����%~��lr5[|�mq�������$%�W׊e!I8+jAIÊ����ׯ��㣳��ӗ������|w|��eA�H�D����uqy3�����F������G/`�/�G��m�����4r�g����m�*��/s^%�HQ�R�]䛋����]��h1S>�W������R^�0>���՘�Q1(�'l�zL���z>棇��pm0����=�±7�;�� ?��]��ů�>�� ��U�~�O?��a�^���>�A+�xD   %�Ԍ�H�  /�������$MD�~�A2V6�Ѣ��Q....more file data here... 
  0000166807 00000 n trailer <] >> startxref 166853 %%EOF

When the data comes back via an ajax call it this is how it is passed to the div 
 $("#divRxPdf").html(data);

I would be grateful if anyone could help me with this and show the PDF in the Div accordingly.  

A:

Update:
PDF needs to be embeded in the HTML with <embed>  or <iframe> .  You could also use library such as pdf.js to render pdf files with some controls.
The pdf.js readme has samples and how to:  https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

You can return the pdf as file by passing the binary using retun File() method
public ActionResult GetRxPdf(int prescriptionId)
 {
    var retVal = _service.GetRxPdf(prescriptionId);
    byte[] byteArray = retVal.FileData;      
   return File(byteArray , "application/pdf" , "Filename.pdf");
}

