progress bar when export grid view to excel report

Question

Hi to one and all..how to show some please wait message or progress bar when export excel report..please help me.

VEERA sekhar · Answer

Ya i tried a lot it's not working.... in starting of my button event i have cal one JS function for showing Please wait.. message or some div panel with loading message and i getting excel report with save open dialog box is fine but i can not stop or close my please wait message...or my div pannel even any alert message also not working before the Response.End line. one response is ended any thing doing it will nothing..this is my major problem... plzzzzzzzzzz help me....... here sb.ToString() is my string builder string fileName = attachment;filename= + reportName; Response.ContentType = application/vnd.ms-excel; fileName = fileName + .xls; Response.AddHeader(Content-Disposition fileName); string[] font = new string[] { Calibri Verdana Arial Sans-Serif }; Response.Charset = ; this.EnableViewState = false; System.IO.StringWriter oStringWriter = new System.IO.StringWriter(); oStringWriter.Write(sb.ToString()); System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter oHtmlTextWriter = new System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter(oStringWriter); Repeater rt = new Repeater(); rt.RenderControl(oHtmlTextWriter); Response.Write(oStringWriter.ToString()); Response.End();

Sivaraman Dhamodaran · Answer

Before starting the export activity set the please wait message. Once the activity is completed set the message to empty.