How to Avoid Response.End() “Thread was being aborted” Exception during the Excel file download

Question

I tried to convert my dataset into excel and download that excel .I got my required excel file.But System.Threading.ThreadAbortException was raised every excel download. Ho

Answer 1

Move the Response.End() to outside of the Try/Catch and Using blocks.

It's suppose to throw an Exception to bypass the rest of the request, you just weren't suppose to catch it.

bool endRequest = false;

try
{
    .. do stuff
    endRequest = true;
}
catch {}

if (endRequest)
    Resonse.End();

Answer 2

This helped me to handle Thread was being aborted exception,

try
{
   //Write HTTP output
    HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(Data);
}  
catch (Exception exc) {}
finally {
   try 
    {
      //stop processing the script and return the current result
      HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
     } 
   catch (Exception ex) {} 
   finally {
        //Sends the response buffer
        HttpContext.Current.Response.Flush();
        // Prevents any other content from being sent to the browser
        HttpContext.Current.Response.SuppressContent = true;
        //Directs the thread to finish, bypassing additional processing
        HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest();
        //Suspends the current thread
        Thread.Sleep(1);
     }
   }

if you use the following the following code instead of HttpContext.Current.Response.End() , you will get Server cannot append header after HTTP headers have been sent exception.

            HttpContext.Current.Response.Flush();
            HttpContext.Current.Response.SuppressContent = True;
            HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest();

Hope it helps

Answer 3

I found that the following worked better...

   private void EndResponse()
    {
        try
        {
            Context.Response.End();
        }
        catch (System.Threading.ThreadAbortException err)
        {
            System.Threading.Thread.ResetAbort();
        }
        catch (Exception err)
        {
        }
    }

Answer 4

I found the reason. If you remove update panels it woks fine!

Answer 5

flush the response to the client before response.end()

More about Response.Flush Method

So use the below-mentioned code before response.End();

response.Flush();  

Answer 6

I removed the linkbutton from the UpdatePanel and also commented the Response.End() Success!!!