[ASP.NET]How to implement file upload and download in ASP.NET MVC

[ASP.NET]How to implement file upload and download in ASP.NET MVC

File upload/download is very useful functionality in web application. Here is a simple implementation of file upload/download in ASP.NET MVC 1.0. The sample use a “FileManager” controller to handle file download and file upload requests. And for download, I created a custom ActionResult class to stream out the binary file content.

FileManager Controller

namespace MVCFileWeb.Controllers

{

    /// <summary>

    /// MVC Controller class for file upload and download

    /// </summary>

    public class FileManagerController : Controller

    {

        /// <summary>

        /// default Action

        /// </summary>

        public ActionResult Index()

        {

            var files = from f in System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(

                                   Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/download/"),

                                   "*.*",

                                   SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly)

                             select System.IO.Path.GetFileName(f);

            return View(files.ToList());

        }

        /// <summary>

     /// action for file download

        /// </summary>

        public ActionResult Download(string fn)

        {

            string pfn = Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/download/" + fn);

            if (!System.IO.File.Exists(pfn))

            {

                throw new ArgumentException("Invalid file name or file not exists!");

            }

            return new BinaryContentResult(){

                         FileName = fn,

                        ContentType="application/octet-stream",

     Content= System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(pfn)

            };

                           

        }

        /// <summary>

        /// Action for file upload

        /// </summary>

        [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]

        public ActionResult Upload()

        {

            string upload_dir = Server.MapPath("~/app_data/upload/");

 

         

            foreach (string f in Request.Files.Keys)

            {

                if (Request.Files[f].ContentLength > 0)

                    Request.Files[f].SaveAs(upload_dir + System.IO.Path.GetFileName(Request.Files[f].FileName));

            }

            return RedirectToRoute(new { Action = "Index", Controller = "FileManager" });

        }

    }

}

Custom ActionResult for file download(as binary stream):

namespace MVCFileWeb

{

    public class BinaryContentResult: ActionResult

    {

            public BinaryContentResult()

            {}

            public string ContentType { get; set; }

            public string FileName { get; set; }

            public byte[] Content { get; set; }

            public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)

            {

              

                context.HttpContext.Response.ClearContent();

                context.HttpContext.Response.ContentType = ContentType;

                  

                context.HttpContext.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition",

                

                "attachment; filename=" + FileName);

                context.HttpContext.Response.BinaryWrite(Content);

                context.HttpContext.Response.End();

            }

    }

}

Index view of FileManager Controller:

<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<List<String>>" %>

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContent" runat="server">

       Index

</asp:Content>

<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">

    <h2>Files for download</h2>

    <%foreach (string file in Model)

      {%>

    <br /><%= Html.ActionLink(file,"Download",new {Action="Download", fn=file}) %>

   

    <%} %>

<hr />

    <h2>Upload new file</h2>

   

    <% using (Html.BeginForm("Upload", "FileManager", FormMethod.Post, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))

       {%>

       <br />File1:<input type="file" name="file1" id="file1" />

       <br />File2:<input type="file" name="file2" id="file2" />

   

       <br /><input type="submit" value="submit" />

    <% } %>

</asp:Content>

You can also get the complete solution in attachment.

MVCFileWeb.zip