title: System.IO.File Non-invocable member 'File' cannot be used like a method
body: <p>Hello Stackoverflow community,</p>
  
  <p>I am getting following error message while downloading a file from Web API Controller.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Non-invocable member 'File' cannot be used like a method</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This is my database table: </p>
  
  <pre><code>CREATE TABLE [cafe].[t06_03_02_jobAttachments](
  [ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
  [jobAttachmentId] [int] NOT NULL,
  [jobId] [int] NOT NULL,
  [file] [varbinary](max) NOT NULL,
  [name] [varchar](100) NOT NULL,
  [fileExtension] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
  [contentType] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
  [fileSize] [int] NOT NULL
  ) ON [PRIMARY]
  </code></pre>
  
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  <p>This is my Data Model:</p>
  
  <pre><code>namespace api.Models.Jobs
  {
  using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
  using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
  using System.Data.Entity.Spatial;
  
  [Table("cafe.t06_03_02_jobAttachments")]
  public partial class t06_03_02_jobAttachments
  {
      public int ID { get; set; }
  
      public int jobAttachmentId { get; set; }
  
      public int jobId { get; set; }
  
      [Required]
      public byte[] file { get; set; }
  
      [Required]
      [StringLength(100)]
      public string name { get; set; }
  
      [Required]
      [StringLength(10)]
      public string fileExtension { get; set; }
  
      [Required]
      [StringLength(50)]
      public string contentType { get; set; }
  
      public int fileSize { get; set; }
  
   }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my controller code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Data;
  using System.Data.Entity;
  using System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Net;
  using System.Net.Http;
  using System.Threading.Tasks;
  using System.Web.Http;
  using System.Web.Http.Description;
  using api.Models;
  using api.Models.Jobs;
  using System.Data.SqlClient;
  using System.Text;
  using System.IO;
  using System.Web.Mvc;
  
  namespace api.Controllers.jobs
  {
   public class JobsController : ApiController
   {
      [HttpGet]
      [ResponseType(typeof(t06_03_02_jobAttachments))]
      public async Task&lt;IHttpActionResult&gt; Gett06_03_02_jobAttachments(int id)
      {
        t06_03_02_jobAttachments t06_03_02_jobAttachments = await db.t06_03_02_jobAttachments.FindAsync(id);
          if (t06_03_02_jobAttachments == null)
          {
              return NotFound();
          }
          return File(t06_03_02_jobAttachments.file, t06_03_02_jobAttachments.contentType, t06_03_02_jobAttachments.name);
      }
   }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
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