Question

I’ve spend hours trying to make uploadify work, but all I see is a button that says [Select File] and that does nothing. Found some links like Multiple file upload in MVC using Uploadify and Using uploadify with ASP.Net2 resulting in the same. And with the information from uploadify.com it doesn’t work either. So I’m stuck at uploadify.

I also noticed that most info is at least one year old. Now I’m wondering if this is THE way to go, or can you recommend a better way? Currently I’m looking at File upload asp.net mvc3 which looks really nice and simple, but only lets you upload 1 file at a time…

Kind regards,

Paul.

Answer 1

One approach is:

According to Phil Haack http://haacked.com/archive/2010/07/16/uploading-files-with-aspnetmvc.aspx

You can do this:

<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

 <label for="file1">Filename:</label>
 <input type="file" name="files" id="file1" />

 <label for="file2">Filename:</label>
 <input type="file" name="files" id="file2" />

 <input type="submit"  />
 </form>

And the controller..

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(IEnumerable<HttpPostedFileBase> files) {
 foreach (var file in files) {
 if (file.ContentLength > 0) {
   var fileName = Path.GetFileName(file.FileName);
   var path = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/uploads"), fileName);
   file.SaveAs(path);
 }
}
return RedirectToAction("Index");
}

Second approach:

Using KendoUI’s upload. It allows upload multiples files synchronously and asynchronously.

The Upload can be used as a drop-in replacement for file input elements.

http://demos.kendoui.com/web/upload/index.html

Clarification: No version of IE supports multiple file selection.