Redirecting to another page after Response.End() has been called in C#

Question

I am exporting a gridview to excel, using .Net 4.0 in a web application, on page load and need for the file to be generated and then the page to be redirected to the calling

Answer 1

The problem is Response.End() send the last bits of the page to the client in order to complete the request. In your case, the request contains the file.

One possible solution is be to open a new page for the download and keep the redirect in the current page.