Cancel export to pdf

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CA Forum: Exporting
We have an web application (asp.net, c#, sql server 2000) where the user can export a report to pdf.
We see that the methode ReportDocument.export() takes a lot of time. When the user closes the window, sql server is still executing the query for the report. Is there a way to cancel the query in sql server when the user closes the window.
Thanx in advance

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can anybody tweak this... so when i click Cancel.... PDF should not export...
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app.documents[0].exportFile (ExportFormat.pdfType, myPDFFilePath, false, myJobOptionName);
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exit(0);
thanks
shil..

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