Question

I don’t know if this is possible.

Can I have a mvc controller open a popup asp.net page? The asp.net page is within the mvc application, it’s basically to run a crystal report viewer.

What happens just now is the mvc view loads and lists reports, then when a report is clicked it launches and exports to pdf. We now want this embedded in a web page instead of exporting to pdf(for various reasons one being no local download of the pdf report).
So sfter reading up i came across the solution to use a folder within the mvc app and use a webform in there. Now I’m trying to find how to open the .aspx pop-up from the controller where the report viewing is initiated.
Does that make any sense.
Any links/help is appreciated

Answer 1

Controllers in ASP.NET MVC are not supposed to open popups. You could do this using javascript inside the view. The window.open javascript function could be helpful:

window.open('/report.aspx', 'report');