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How to open a new window in ASP.NET/C# code behind without full page postback

I am able to dynamically write JavaScript routines in my ASP.NET/C# code behind page in order to open a new window. However, I notice that this is only done when there is a full page postback. When I try to perform the following code segments in a method like FormView1_ItemInserted(), and the FormView is within an AJAX Panel, then the JavaScript is not executed, it seems.

ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(this.GetType(), "anything2", strScript.ToString());

ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(Page, this.GetType(), "Open Window", strScript.ToString(), true);

The strScript contains the JavaScript code surrounded by the <script> tags.

While I am specifically wanting to open a new window dynamically, I am wanting to be able to execute any JavaScript code (e.g. an alert) to do something after I insert a record into a formview, surrounded by an AJAX Panel Update. Just prior to executing the new window, I am dynamically creating 3 html files and the 3rd file will be the one that I am opening in the new window (which will link to the other 2 html files).

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Since strScript has the <script> tags, I needed to change the last parm to "false", and now it works!

ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this, this.GetType(), "Open Window", strScript.ToString(), false);

Evidently, I was wrong it thinking that the JavaScript routine would not work in an AJAX Panel Update, based on my experiments. Thanks for the correction to the last parm.