I don't really know how to explain what I want to do.
I will try to explain what I am doing. I built a website in ASP.NET 4 (WebForms) and I want that my brother will be able to click on a button, choose a file from his computer and it will be uploaded to my server.
I have no idea how to do it. It sounds very hard to do and I am really stuck with this for a few days now.
I don't care if it will be with JavaScript, HTML or C#, I just really need it to work.
There's an ASP.NET control made just for that, the FileUpload control. Here's a handy example.
Note that it's notoriously difficult to style if you want to apply CSS and make it elegant, but there are more advanced ways around that. Also, this won't give your web application access to the client's local files or anything like that, it's just a standard file open dialog box for the user to select a file and upload it.
I also highly recommend doing a lot of input checking when accepting files. File type, file size, etc. are all important.
you have 2 options really.. use a traditional fileupload control (from the toolbox) or use the Ajax AsyncFileupload control.
either way it will allow your brother to upload a file from his computer to your server.
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I 'm currently working on creating a web learning portal using ASP.NET MVC 4, where my clients requirement is that the end user should not be able to save the file. The save restriction is applicable on all video type files, images, pdf, word docs and powerpoint type files.
I understand the following exceptions and the client is good with this:
User can make use of print screen
copy-paste text
I need your guidance how best to accomplish this.
For video, I came across the following link http://www.strathweb.com/2013/01/asynchronously-streaming-video-with-asp-net-web-api/.
Thanks,
Hemant.
I came across this online tool http://www.docspal.com/ but they doesn't seems to provide any API for the developers.
Am I the only one with this requirement :(
It is really hard to stop users from copying documents from the website.
However, just to lower it down, you should be able to disable right click which may at least decrease the number of users that will try to copy your content. Do something like following in jQuery.
$(document).bind('contextmenu', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
alert('Right Click is not allowed');
});
Refer to this for more.
I want to be able to upload my work to my site, but when I view the Default.aspx file in a web browser, I just see the code, not the actual "rendering" of the code. Any know know what I am doing wrong?
Here's an image of what I mean:
You need hosting that supports ASP.Net, otherwise server simply will render page as text. There are plenty around - search and find one that fits your needs/budget.
Note that the same would happen with any other server side language if uploaded to host that does not support that particular language.
I have a lotus notes web form in which computer-illiterate customers will use to attach Excel files and submit them to our company. I am using a Lotus Notes File Upload Control to allow them to do this, however, I need to default this File Upload Control to a certain directory location. I have already created a C# application the customers will be using, which places all of these excel files in a certain directory location, hence the reason I need to focus this File Upload Control. Unfortunately, some of the customers are computer challenged enough to not know how to navigate to these files on their own. Is this possible at all?
I'm assuming the users will be visiting a web page with the File Upload control, yes? If I'm misunderstanding please let me know and I'll delete this answer.
The simple answer is it isn't possible. The problem is that the browser can't know anything about the file structure of the clients that visit the site, so a "default path" property doesn't really make sense. It would likely only work in very specific environments (which is maybe true in your case, but not across the web in general)
I would investigate using the Notes API to have the C# program handle the upload without involving the browser client use of the file upload control. I don't know enough Java to be sure, but perhaps that might also be an option -- basically writing your own custom upload control that only asks the user for the filename.
You may also be seriously underestimating the ability of the users to follow directions. If your page identifies which directory the file will be found in, I expect most users will be able to follow the directions and upload from the correct directory.
So, I'm sure that accomplishing what you want to accomplish is possible in Notes, just not as simply as adding a default directory to the File Upload Control.
I'm developing a web (using asp.net and c#) which has a FileUpload control from asp.net. The upload thing works perfect and as far as I know I can't show progress data (%, bytes transfered, upload speed, time elapsed, time left, progress bar) using the FileUpload control from asp.net because its not asyncrhonous.
I've searched a lot (really) on the internet and I didn't find what i'm looking for and too much info has become a big confusion since I'm not sure about what I have to use.
On my web page I have a file named "UploadFile.aspx" which has a FileUpload control and a button that handles the uploading. On code-behind (UploadFile.aspx.cs) I have all the server-side logic (Upload the file into specific folder, store info about that file into a database, etc. etc) and I don't want to change this.
What I need to know is how to show the progress data to the user while is uploading the file? I can't use 3rd party applications because this is for an important commercial site. It's not a problem for me if I have to learn javascript / jQuery / Whatever but really i'm a bit lost and I don't know how to start.
Thanks for your time and your help guys.
There's some pretty cool solutions out there. Granted, you can code your own, but I'd suggest using a jQuery plugin like Plupload. If you need help setting it up, you can read their documentation.
There are lots of lots of demo code are available on the net to show the progress bar with file upload control in c#, most of them work fine on Local system but never work on the live server, Because You CAN'T USE A FileUpload control for what you want to do. When a user POSTs a file, you have to think of it like a querystring parameter. It goes as one Http Request. If you want to do a progress bar you'll want to look into something that can interact with the server asynchronously.
If you don't want to use any 3rd party that relies on Flash / Html 5, please take a look at this article:
http://vanacosmin.ro/Articles/Read/AjaxFileUpload
This is possible (and if you're using .NET 4.5 GetBufferedInputStream will make your life easier), but it is not very easy, as you'll see.
Basically, if you want a file upload with progress bar that is fully compatible with every browser, you need to handle this server side and give an url where the client (the browser) can check periodically for the progress with ajax.
We all know that it is possible to "open" a Word document (or file from any arbitrary application) by clicking on a website link and then clicking the Open button.
I also know that, if I want to upload an application document to a web server, I must first save the document to my computer, and then go to an upload page, click a file/open button, find my saved file and upload it.
But is it possible to save a document to a website location or Url, effectively skipping the first save step and uploading the file to the web server through the Save dialog of the application, directly?
How would this be done in ASP.NET MVC?
It really depends on how complex you want to make it. This is pretty much what "web folders" offered (via WebDAV), but in general it creates more problems than it will ever fix. I don't recommend this approach.
Your best bet to make this simple is a dedicated client app - perhaps (although this is a dubious example) how Office talks to sharepoint. In a simpler example, you could create a silverlight out-of-browser application that saved via a web-service to a site using WCF or similar.
I think there is some creedence in what #Marc says. Personally I'd probably map a drive to the web site in question, if that's possible, and have a folder to upload to.
Then I'd have .Net check changes to the folder and take those files and import them into the repository, whatever that may be.
It's still an imperfect solution and I'm not sure there is a correct solution as yet.
I guess you could always write, and I can't believe I'm writing this, macros to save to the ftp location.
I'd guess you have a few choices, in no particular order:
Web service that the application can reference and upload through.
REST service (WCF or otherwise) that the application can POST to.
HttpHandler or MVC controller action that the application can POST to.
WebDAV directly to the server.
Number 3 sounds like it's closest to what you were looking for ("How would this be done in ASP.NET MVC?"). Scott Hanselman has a good article on handling file uploads in MVC on his blog.
When you implement the client, there's a little bit of a trick to that, too, since you can't just POST like usual; you have to post in multipart/form-data format. I posted a blog entry with some sample code on how to do that.