ASP.NET - window.close()

[Gene Brumm]

I have an ASP.NET web application that checks for a
database in Page_Load(). If the database is not present I
want to exit the application.

I have tried using window.close() which does close the
app but prompts the user if he/she wants to close the
browser. I don't want the prompt since the app must close.

How can I do this?

[Nicholas Then]

ASP.NET - window.close()

I have tried this, and I get the same thing. From what I
have been told and have read, it is a security feature
that is built into the browser itself. I do not think it
can be overridden, or that would make the security on the
browsers kinda useless. The only way that I know of how
to have a window automatically close is when the parent
page opens a popup window. Then the popup window can
close without prompts, but I believe the parent window
will always have prompts.

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

Re: ASP.NET - window.close()

You can stop a person from using your app, but you cannot shut down their
browser without their permission. I would aim for logic that sends them to a
"this app is not working because there is no database" friendly error page.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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"Gene Brumm" <Gene.Brumm@Tho mson.com> wrote in message
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> I have an ASP.NET web application that checks for a
> database in Page_Load(). If the database is not present I
> want to exit the application.
>
> I have tried using window.close() which does close the
> app but prompts the user if he/she wants to close the
> browser. I don't want the prompt since the app must close.
>
> How can I do this?[/color]

[Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]]

Re: ASP.NET - window.close()

Exactly right. At any rate, you'd want to notify the user most likely. So,
you could show a little page that does a window alert (to tell them that the
db isn't available, please close the window), writes some text to the page
(if they don't close the page).
-mike
MVP

"Nicholas Then" <nick@unitedagy .com> wrote in message
news:011e01c3b8 3a$ab309e50$a40 1280a@phx.gbl.. .[color=blue]
> I have tried this, and I get the same thing. From what I
> have been told and have read, it is a security feature
> that is built into the browser itself. I do not think it
> can be overridden, or that would make the security on the
> browsers kinda useless. The only way that I know of how
> to have a window automatically close is when the parent
> page opens a popup window. Then the popup window can
> close without prompts, but I believe the parent window
> will always have prompts.[/color]