Not able to copy files from source path to destination path

[Tempalli]

Dear Team,

I am using the below code where as i am not able to copy the source files to destination path. Source path is the local system D:drive and destination is Server system. When i am connecting to server system folowing with IP from local system nothing is happening but if i do the same from server system following with the same IP it works fine. kindly suggest what to do iam using Visual studio 2005.

Code as below.......

Imports System
Imports System.IO

   Dim strConnString As [String] = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("ConnectionString").ConnectionString()
        Dim con As New SqlConnection(strConnString)
        con.Open()

        Dim myDirInfo As DirectoryInfo
        Dim arrFileInfo As Array
        Dim myFileInfo As FileInfo

        Dim sourcepath = "D:\PDF_Attachments"
        Dim DestinationPath = Server.MapPath("~/MyFiles/To_be_Send/")

        If (Directory.Exists(sourcepath)) Then

            myDirInfo = New DirectoryInfo("D:\PDF_Attachments\")
            arrFileInfo = myDirInfo.GetFiles("*.Pdf")

            For Each fName As String In Directory.GetFiles(sourcepath)
                If File.Exists(fName) Then
                    Dim dFile As String = String.Empty
                    dFile = Path.GetFileName(fName)
                    Dim dFilePath As String = String.Empty
                    dFilePath = DestinationPath + dFile
                    File.Delete(DestinationPath + dFile)
                    File.Copy(fName, dFilePath, True)
                End If
            Next

            For Each myFileInfo In arrFileInfo

                Dim command As New SqlCommand("Import_Attachments_Reminder", con)
                Command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
                Try
                    Command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Claim_No", myFileInfo.Name)
                    Command.ExecuteNonQuery()

                Catch ex As Exception
                    Throw ex
                Finally
                End Try

            Next myFileInfo

            con.Close()
            con.Dispose()

        Else
            Directory.CreateDirectory("D:/PDF_Attachments")
        End If

        Response.Redirect("Reminder_Mails.aspx")
    End Sub

[Frinavale]

When you say "local" what do you mean?

I'm not clear on what you are trying to accomplish.
Are you trying to copy files from the web application's "MyFiles" to a location on the server ("D:/PDF_Attachments ")?

Or are you trying to copy files from the user's computer to a server? If so, you're going about this the wrong way.

-Frinny

[Tempalli]

Dear Frinny,

Thanks for your reply.

I am trying to copy files from the user's computer having folder "D:PDF_Attachme nts to Server having folder("~/MyFiles/To_be_Send/").

Dim sourcepath = "D:\PDF_Attachm ents"
Dim DestinationPath = Server.MapPath( "~/MyFiles/To_be_Send/")

Please help me with complete code.

Regards,
Tempalli

[Frinavale]

That isn't going to work because the user's computer and the server are in two different places. The user has to upload the files to the server. They have the whole internet in between them.

Your server code cannot access the client's computer. It runs on a server and returns HTML to the user's browser. The browser displays the HTML to the user and the user interacts with the web application using buttons and other controls which submit requests for the server to do something.



Check out the FileUpload control.

-Frinny

[Tempalli]

Dear Frinny,

Uploading each and every file through file upload control its difficult to the user for uploading each and every file.

Its there any other option so that the user copies all the files (*.pdf) from a perticular folder of client system to server automatically. if so please provide me the code.

Regards,
T.S.Anantharama m

[Frinavale]

I've never done it but you could create an application that the user downloads and runs which does that for them. In that application you could even use something like FTP to transfer the files to the server if you want :)

-Frinny

[danp129]

Here are some free options:

http://swfupload.org/

http://valums.com/ajax-upload/

Here are some commercial options:

http://www.obout.com/Obout.Ajax.UI/FileUpload/

http://ajaxuploader.com/

[PsychoCoder]

You could nalso check out Uploadify for a complete jQuery upload system for multiple files at once.