Can I Flush the Buffer Early Using ASP.NET?

Question

Best Practices for Speeing Up Your Web Site from Yahoo includes the following recommendation:

When users request a page, it can take anywhere from 200 to 500

Answer 1

You might want to explicitly set Buffer=true in the @Page tag at the top of the page as well to avoid Response.Flush() throwing errors.

Answer 2

You should be able to put the following in your page between the end of the head and the beginning of the body statement:

<% Response.Flush(); %>

However, be careful here in the event that you are using a script manager or any other kind of control that will register itself for output in the head section of the html.