Question

I have existing legacy code that is using a standard form.

I would like to in the page init event of the code behind grab a handle to this input type=”file” element, and convert it to a .net fileUpload object.

Is this possible? Without rewriting the whole form?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Not looking for an example of how to handle the upload processing, just looking for the entry point – how to get a reference to the input type=file and treat it as a .net fileupload object. – Thanks again.

I was thinking along the lines of :

Dim myControl1 as FileUpload = FindControl("myFileElement")

Would this work if I could sort out the casting issue?

Answer 1

Would the Files property off the HttpRequest class suffice?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httprequest.files.aspx