ASP.NET in a Nutshell

Name

Buffer

Synopsis

Boolean = Response.Buffer
Response.Buffer = Boolean

Returns or sets a Boolean value that represents whether output is buffered on the server and sent when the request has completely finished processing, or when either the Response.Flush or Response.End methods are called. The default value is True.

Parameters

Boolean

A Boolean that will receive or set the value of the property.

Notes

This property is supplied for backward compatibility with classic ASP and has been deprecated in favor of the BufferOutput property. New ASP.NET code should use BufferOutput in place of Buffer.

One important difference between Response.Buffer property in classic ASP and the Buffer and BufferOutput properties in ASP.NET is that in classic ASP, you could not modify the Buffer property beyond the point at which output had been sent to the browser without causing an error. In ASP.NET, because of its compiled (rather than interpreted) nature, you can modify the Buffer or BufferOutput property at any time, and the change only affects how buffering occurs. This gives developers much more flexibility over how and when their output is buffered. See the BufferOutput example for a demonstration.