ASP.NET in a Nutshell

Name

Redirect

Synopsis

Response.Redirect(ByVal url As String) 
Response.Redirect(ByVal url As String, _) 
                  ByVal endResponse As Boolean)

Redirects the currently executing page to another page specified by the URL argument, optionally terminating the processing of the current page.

Parameters

url

A String argument containing the URL for the page to redirect to.

endResponse

A Boolean argument indicating whether to terminate processing of the current page. If the argument is omitted, the method call causes processing of the current page to be discontinued.

Example

The example redirects the current request to BufferOutput.aspx and directs ASP.NET to discontinue processing of the current page:

Sub Page_Load(  )
   Response.Redirect("BufferOutput.aspx", True)
End Sub

Notes

Unless additional processing needs to be done in the page from which you call Response.Redirect, you should always pass True as the second argument to Response.Redirect to prevent server resources from being wasted by continuing to process the current page. This feature is new for ASP.NET. When calling Response.Redirect with only the url argument, processing of the current page is discontinued automatically.

Note that when redirecting to a page such as BufferOutput.aspx in which buffering is turned off, or to a page that calls Response.Flush, the redirect will not complete until the target page has completed processing. This means that all content on the target page will be seen at once, rather than as it is rendered or flushed ...