在一些.NET论坛中有人经常会问:如何在页面中点击按钮打开新页面,输入数据,然后返回到初始页面并进行更新?要解决这个问题,应该弄清楚window.showModalDialog()的用法,本人在http://www.csdn.net/Develop/read_article.asp?id=15113已经做过介绍。下面就用例子介绍如何在ASP.NET中实现这个功能。 
本例子共3个页面,其中WebForm2.aspx是过渡页面,是为了防止提交时打开新页面。
WebForm1.aspx
<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="WebForm1.aspx.vb"
 Inherits="ShowModalDialog.WebForm1" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
  <HEAD>
  <title>WebForm1</title>
  <meta content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.0" name="GENERATOR">
  <meta content="Visual Basic 7.0" name="CODE_LANGUAGE">
  <meta content="JavaScript" name="vs_defaultClientScript">
  <meta content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5" name="vs_targetSchema">
  </HEAD>
  <body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout">
   <div align="center">
   <form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
   <asp:label id="Label1" runat="server" Font-Bold="true">
    从当前页面打开新窗口,并把变量传递到新窗口的例子,可以多次打开提交。
    </asp:label><br>
   <br>
   <asp:textbox id="TextBox1" runat="server" Width="600px">这是初始值,将被传递到新窗口。</asp:textbox><br>
   <br>
   <asp:button id="Button1" runat="server" Text="打开窗口" Width="96px"></asp:button></form>
  </div>
  </body>
</HTML>
WebForm1.aspx.vb
Public Class WebForm1
  Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
  Protected WithEvents TextBox1 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
  Protected WithEvents Form1 As System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm
  Protected WithEvents Label1 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
  Protected WithEvents Button1 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button
#Region " Web 窗体设计器生成的代码 "
  '该调用是 Web 窗体设计器所必需的。
  <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
  End Sub
  Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
    'CODEGEN: 此方法调用是 Web 窗体设计器所必需的
    '不要使用代码编辑器修改它。
    InitializeComponent()
  End Sub
#End Region
  Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    '在此处放置初始化页的用户代码
    If (Not IsClientScriptBlockRegistered("clientScript")) Then
      Dim strScript As String = "<script>" + vbCrLf
      strScript += "function OpenWin(){" + vbCrLf
      strScript += "var str=window.showModalDialog('WebForm2.aspx',document.Form1.TextBox1.value)" + vbCrLf
      strScript += "if(str!=null)  document.Form1.TextBox1.value=str" + vbCrLf
      strScript += "}" + vbCrLf
      strScript += "</script>" + vbCrLf
      RegisterClientScriptBlock("clientScript", strScript)
    End If
    Button1.Attributes.Add("onclick", "OpenWin()")
  End Sub
End Class
WebForm2.aspx
<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="WebForm2.aspx.vb" Inherits="aspxWeb.mengxianhui.com.WebForm2"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
  <HEAD>
    <title>WebForm2</title>
    <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.0">
    <meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" content="Visual Basic 7.