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HEllo Experts,

I am working on quite bit sometime on creating a PDF form and filling the fields from Vb.net. I was doing pretty good on that part. Now I am trying to click on a button to Fill the PDF Form and then open it in a new tab/window.

Here is my code
below code is in Page1.aspx

VB

ListFieldNames()
       FillForm()
       Server.Transfer("~/Page2.aspx")

In Page2.aspx I have like below

VB

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
       Response.ContentType = "Application/pdf"
       Response.AddHeader("content-length", Session("binaryData").ToString().Length.ToString())
       Response.BinaryWrite(Session("binaryData"))
       Response.End()
   End Sub

However, it is not opening in new tab/window .

I would appreciate if someone can help me with this.

Posted 27-Jul-15 7:09am

sudevsu

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Jul-15 13:17pm

Where do you think you are trying to open a browser window? Besides, it's a bad idea: this would be a pop-up, and pop-ups can be blocked on the client side by the users who hate them (for some good reasons).
—SA

sudevsu 27-Jul-15 14:43pm

Ok Instead asking the user to Save/ Open / cancel like an attachment would be better?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Jul-15 14:47pm

I don't understand, what "attachment"? First of all, what do you want to achieve? Why would you need to show anything in a separate window? You can 1) show new data in response to user action on the same window, 2) show some link to new data, so the user could decide how to navigate to it: on the same window, new window or tab.
—SA

sudevsu 27-Jul-15 15:00pm

Yeah when I say Attachment , I mean something like
show new data in response to user action on the same window

Open Save Cancel.
I think that's what you mean. I have done with this as solution for now.
But I really want to new tab / window because most of the dealers using the site are not computer literates , so they want everything open and requested for this

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Jul-15 15:04pm

Surely it can be better than a pop-up.
You are talking about inexperienced users. For such people, the best model is a single Web window. Such user can easily "loose" either new or, more likely, original window or a tab.
—SA

sudevsu 27-Jul-15 16:34pm

Yeah. COrrect. I will tell this to my manager And I did complete the solution for showing new data in response to user action on the same window. Thank a lot SA :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Jul-15 17:03pm

You are welcome.
—SA

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deepankarbhatnagar · Answer 1 · 2015-07-28T00:03:00

Solution 3

Hi, below is the exact link to help what you need to solve your query.

Thanks in advance.

http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/ASP.Net-Response.Redirect-or-Server.Transfer-Open-new-window.aspx[^]

Posted 28-Jul-15 0:03am

deepankarbhatnagar

E.F. Nijboer · Answer 2 · 2015-07-27T22:35:00

Instead of a transfer, try send a redirect to the browser to open page2 in a new windows.

XML

response.write("<script>");
response.write("window.open('page2.html','_blank')");
response.write("</script>");

For more info, check here:
http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/ASP.Net-Response.Redirect-or-Server.Transfer-Open-new-window.aspx[^]

Good luck!

F-ES Sitecore · Answer 3 · 2015-07-27T22:52:00

Solution 2

Whatever requests "Page1" needs to request it in a new window. If page1.aspx is got to via a form submission you need _blank as a target on the form

<form target="_blank" action="page1.aspx">

or if page1.aspx is got to via a link

<a target="_blank" href="/KB/answers/page1.aspx" ...

Posted 27-Jul-15 22:52pm

F-ES Sitecore

Updated 28-Jul-15 0:14am

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