Question

I have this MVC3 Application where I generate a file within ~/Content/Resource directory, so I need to upload it to database if user picks that option. I have all rest of the logic ready. Just unsure how to approach this.

I have byte[] field in my model ready for it, and have a generated file ready for upload just no idea how to pass the file from server to SQL server… Kinda confused since this won’t be a PostedFIle so dunno how to treat it…

Answer 1

I’ve managed to come up with a simple solution. Just converted generated file to byte[] and it worked spot on.
This is the code

//Method for generating XML file
GenerateXML();

FileStream stream = new FileStream(createPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(stream);

//Reading binary data into byte[]
byte[] file = reader.ReadBytes((int)stream.Length);
reader.Close();
stream.Close();

// Saving byte[] to models byte[] field
release.XMLFile = file;

And it worked.