Upload a file/image with form data in MVC

Nowadays I am starting out in ASP.NET MVC, one of the things I struggled with the most was how to upload a file/image with form data in MVC. I googled numerous tutorials and guides that showed me how to do file uploads in ASP.NET MVC, but they all had the POST action only receiving the upload itself, not a form full of data and a file upload. Hopefully, this article will save the times and efforts of newbies.

Simply I am creating a view with a textbox “name” and a input file tag with a form in which we need to set enctype as “multipart/form-data” as below given

 <form name="form1" method="post" action="Home/addImage" enctype="multipart/form-data">
      <div>
        Name: @Html.TextBox("name")
        <label>
           Browse File</label>
        <input name="myFile" type="file" />
    </div>
    <div>
        <input type="submit" value="Upload" />
    </div>
    </form>

<div>

Name: @Html.TextBox("name")

<label>

Browse File</label>

</div>

<div>

</div>

</form>

Here we are calling HomeController addImage action on form submit so let’s view the HomeController :

 [HttpPost]
        public void addImage(FormCollection form)
        {
          string name = form["name"];
            if (Request.Files.Count > 0)
            {
                var docFiles = new List<string>();
                foreach (string file in Request.Files)
                {
                    var postedFile = Request.Files[file];
                    var filePath = Server.MapPath("~/images/" + postedFile.FileName);
                    postedFile.SaveAs(filePath);
                    docFiles.Add(filePath);
                }
              }
            else
            {
                // else code whatever you want
            }
            return ;
        }

[HttpPost]

public void addImage(FormCollection form)

{

string name = form["name"];

if (Request.Files.Count > 0)

{

var docFiles = new List<string>();

foreach (string file in Request.Files)

{

var postedFile = Request.Files[file];

var filePath = Server.MapPath("~/images/" + postedFile.FileName);

postedFile.SaveAs(filePath);

docFiles.Add(filePath);

}

else

{

// else code whatever you want

}

return ;

}

Here in this addImage action, We are taking FormCollection as a parameter by which we can access the form data like name. Here we are using Request object for getting the files which is assigned to a variable “postedFile” which is of HttpPostedFileWrapper. By using this, we can access each and every property of a file object and can implement the conditions and using SaveAs method we can save the file at specified location.

So Uploading a file/image with form data in MVC, is a easy process like ASP.NET but only need to get the guide to do that.

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