why Response.End Not working?

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May be it is a Duplicate question. But my case is something different. I have a page to download the text file. In the page first i decrypt the text file into string plainText. then write that string into a file and upload to a folder named as Decrypted Files. The download that decrypted file and delete previously saved file.

here is my code for download

                //Write the decrypted text to folder in the server.
                System.IO.File.WriteAllText(Server.MapPath("~/Decrypted Files/" + FileName), plainText);

                //Code for Download
                Response.Clear();
                Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
                Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename='" + FileName + "'");
                Response.WriteFile(Server.MapPath("~/Decrypted Files/" + FileName));

                //Delete File from the folder
                if (System.IO.File.Exists(Server.MapPath("~/Decrypted Files/" + FileName)))
                {
                    System.IO.File.Delete((Server.MapPath("~/Decrypted Files/" + FileName)));
                }

                Response.End();

But The code execution not continue from Response.End(); and the .aspx page not finishing its loading. What is wrong with my code ?

Why not run the project and enable Exception settings/set debug points? The problem can be from other lines instead of Response.End. See this answer too - http://stackoverflow.com/a/18477989/2010289 — kent-id, Jan 04 '16 at 08:22
"The code execution not continue from Response.End()" - Can you please clarify what this sentence mean? Obviously you know that `Response.End` throws ThreadAbortException, so you are not expecting code *after* that line to execute... so what code you are talking about? — Alexei Levenkov, Jan 04 '16 at 08:26

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '16 at 08:32

Now i got what is wrong with my code. Before ending I deleted the file. So i changed the code as follows and everything working fine.

                //Write the decrypted text to folder in the server.
                System.IO.File.WriteAllText(Server.MapPath("~/Decrypted Files/" + FileName), plainText);

                //Code for Download
                Response.Clear();
                Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
                Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename='" + FileName + "'");
                Response.WriteFile(Server.MapPath("~/Decrypted Files/" + FileName));
                Response.Flush();

                //Delete File from the folder
                if (System.IO.File.Exists(Server.MapPath("~/Decrypted Files/" + FileName)))
                {
                    System.IO.File.Delete((Server.MapPath("~/Decrypted Files/" + FileName)));
                }
                HttpContext.Current.Response.End();

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '18 at 08:15

-1

put that button (which you are using to export) in update panel

answered Jun 19 '18 at 08:15

Chandani Kothari

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why Response.End Not working?

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