Launching pdf file with Process.Start does not work

[Kurt Jakobsen]

Hello,
I am trying to launch a pdf file from and C# .net page. Through previous postings on this site and others, I found that using System.Diagnositcs.ProcessStart should be able to do this for me. However, although everybody else on the discussion pages round about manage to do this, my page does nothing when I call this function. Anybody knows what might be wrong? Could it be some setting i Web.config missing, wrong, etc?
....
<%@ import Namespace="System.Diagnostics" %>

<script runat="server">

void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\Test.pdf");
}
....

Web.config file:
<configuration>
<appSettings>
</appSettings>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true"/>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
<pages theme="FyrrTheme"
enableEventValidation="false"
compilationMode="Always"
maintainScrollPositionOnPostBack="true"
asyncTimeout="450">
<namespaces>
</namespaces>
<tagMapping>
</tagMapping>
</pages>
<sessionState
mode="InProc"
stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;Trusted_Connection=yes"
cookieless="false"
timeout="640"
/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

Best regards
Kurt

[shweta123]

Hi,

Is there any specific need for calling Process.start?
You can try Response.Redirect instead.Also please check if process is created in Task Manager.It may happen that process is running in the Background and not seen on the screen.

[Kurt Jakobsen]

Hello,
shweta123, but why not, of course. I just assumed that redirect would not work with pdf.... foolish of me :-)
Thanks now it works. :-)