How to open report as pdf directly to IE 7 window

[AkAlan]

I have some code in a class that I use to export a report to pdf without having to use a report viewer and it works great except that the user is always prompted to Open or Save the report. I want the report to open directly in a new page without the prompt. I also would like to make the cursor change while the report is rendering so the user knows the print button was actually clicked. Thanks for any help.


He is my class code :

	Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
	Imports Telerik.Reporting.Processing
	Imports MyTelerikLibrary
	Public Class TelerikFunctions
	Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
	Public Function ExportToPDF(ByVal reportToExport As Telerik.Reporting.Report) As Telerik.Reporting.Report
	Dim reportProcessor As New Telerik.Reporting.Processing.ReportProcessor()
	Dim result As RenderingResult = reportProcessor.RenderReport("PDF", reportToExport, Nothing)
	Dim fileName As String = result.DocumentName + ".pdf"
	HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear()
	HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = result.MimeType
	HttpContext.Current.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.Private)
	HttpContext.Current.Response.Expires = -1
	HttpContext.Current.Response.Buffer = True
	HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", String.Format("{0};FileName=""{1}""", "attachment", fileName))
	HttpContext.Current.Response.BinaryWrite(result.DocumentBytes)
	HttpContext.Current.Response.End()
	End Function
	End Class

Here is the Buttons click event (along with page declarations)
 Imports Telerik.Reporting.Processing

 

Imports MyTelerikLibrary  

 

	Dim tF As New TelerikFunctions
	Dim rv = New RwpListingD007()
	tF.ExportToPDF(rv)

[Steve]

Hello AkAlan,

The Open/Save dialog is browser behavior and cannot be controlled by the code used for exporting. If there is an option to open the document directly, it should be an option of the pdf browser plugin used to open the file.

All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team

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[Ramón]

Hi, AkAlan.

Just remove the following line and it will open directly in  the browser window (tested in IE8)

 HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", String.Format("{0};FileName=""{1}""", "attachment", fileName))

Regards,

Ramón.

[AkAlan]

Thanks Ramón,  That works exactly as I had wanted, and so simple. I am still on IE 7 and it work with that.

[Ramón]

Hi, AkAlan.

Great it worked for you.

I was looking for hours for a solution to my problem.  I finally googled for "Content-Disposition" to know what it does, so I found that it forces the browser to show an open/save dialog for known MIME types, as in "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260519".   I just removed it from code.

Regards,

Guillermo

[prateek]

Hi You can do this simply by applying event -  OnClientClick="aspnetForm.target ='_blank';" 

 <asp:Button ID="exportPDF" runat="server" target="blank" Text="Export PDF" OnClientClick="aspnetForm.target ='_blank';" CssClass="btn btn-info" />