Question

I have Default.aspx page, which inherits from BasePage.cs, which inherits from System.Web.UI.Page. BasePage is where I do some common things every page must do upon loading.

In BasePage, lets say I’m checking for X. If X=1, then I will redirect to my ‘Discontinued.aspx’ page immediately and stop execution of BasePage. If I find X=1, I say:

HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect(‘Discontinued.aspx’, true);

I want the redirect to stop execution of BasePage and immediately jump out – hence the ‘true’ in the above statement – which should stop execution of the current page as I understand. The problem is, it doesn’t. I’m expecting the redirect to throw the ‘thread abort exception’.

When I run in debug mode, it contines stepping through as though it didn’t just redirect and leave.

But the redirect was still started as well – once I get done stepping through the rest of BasePage, the ‘Discontinued’ page then begins to load as a result of the redirect.

Is there a reason my Redirect will not kill execution of BasePage?

Answer 1

are you exiting from the function that calls redirect, e.g.

...redirect(stopit,true); return; 

?