Thread was being aborted exception in crystal reports

Question

We were getting the Thread was being aborted Exception while exporting a report into PDF.

The below code we were using for export a report into PDF.

                    Response.Buffer = true;
                    Response.ClearContent();
                    Response.ClearHeaders();
                    Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
                    myReportDoc.ExportToHttpResponse(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, Response, true, Session["ReportName"].ToString());
                    Response.Flush();
                    Response.Close();

Please help me how to resolve this exception.

Answer 1

SAP explains that:

Cause

The issue has been identified and logged under Problem Report ID ADAPT00765364. The error is likely caused because Response.End() is used inside the ExportToHttpResponse() method.
It is a known issue that Reponse.End() causes the thread to abort. This is by design.
See Microsoft KB312629 Article for more info.

Workaround

....
 try
   {
   reportDocument.ExportToHttpResponse(format, Response, true, Page.Title);
   }
 catch (System.Threading.ThreadAbortException)
   {
   }
....

Resolution

You can write your own code to export a Crystal Report directly to the browser in a format such as PDF, Word, Excel, etc. You must make sure you use the appropriate content type.

Sample code to export Crystal Report to web browser as PDF

try
{
 boReportDocument.Load(Server.MapPath(@"MyReport.rpt"));
 System.IO.Stream oStream = null;
 byte[] byteArray = null;
 oStream = boReportDocument.ExportToStream (ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat);
 byteArray = new byte[oStream.Length];
 oStream.Read(byteArray, 0, Convert.ToInt32(oStream.Length - 1));
 Response.ClearContent();
 Response.ClearHeaders();
 Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
 Response.BinaryWrite(byteArray);
 Response.Flush();
 Response.Close();
 boReportDocument.Close();
 boReportDocument.Dispose();

}
catch (Exception ex)
{
 string s = ex.Message;
}

Answer 2

The error is thrown because a call to response.End() is made inside of ExportToHttpResponse. Remove your calls to Flush and Close the response and wrap your call to ExportToHttpResponse inside a try/catch block to catch and ignore the System.Threading.ThreadAbortException.