Uploading a directory instead of a file

[K Viltersten]

If i go as follows:

<asp:FileUplo ad ID="dirTemp" runat="server" Width="400px" /><br />

The element i create is requiring me to select a file. Can i use this
control to point out a directory? Is there another one?

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Konrad Viltersten

[Marc Gravell]

Re: Uploading a directory instead of a file

Not really - as it needs to render at the client via html; there is an
<input type="file" ...>, but nothing similar for folders. If you are
happy to use client-side controls (OCX, or possibly silverlight etc) you
might be able to do more (look at sharepoint's "upload multiple" for
example) - but otherwise it depends on the user - for example, are they
savvy enough to zip a folder and upload the zip? It depends on the user:
a developer is probably fine with this; a visitor to "Ma's bake
sale.org" - probably not.

Marc

[K Viltersten]

SV: Uploading a directory instead of a file

Not really - as it needs to render at the

client via html; there is an
<input type="file" ...>
but nothing similar for folders. If you
are happy to use client-side controls
(OCX, or possibly silverlight etc) you
might be able to do more...

Unfortunately i'm not at such liberty. It
strikes me as awfully strange that such a
facility hasn't been implemented, though...

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Regards
Konrad Viltersten
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sleep - a substitute for coffee for the poor
ambition - lack of sense to be lazy

[Lucid]

Re: Uploading a directory instead of a file

1: User chooses directory they wish to upload.
2: Create directory on the server.
3: Recurse through all the files in the directory on the user-end
4: For each file, upload.

This would be in the code-behind of course.


"K Viltersten" <tmp1@vilterste n.comwrote in message
news:op.uaqh321 mi74t80@lp028.p agero.local...
If i go as follows:

<asp:FileUplo ad ID="dirTemp" runat="server" Width="400px" /><br />

The element i create is requiring me to select a file. Can i use this
control to point out a directory? Is there another one?

--
Konrad Viltersten

[parez]

Re: Uploading a directory instead of a file

On May 6, 3:25 pm, "Lucid" <lu...@phreak20 00.comwrote:

1: User chooses directory they wish to upload.
2: Create directory on the server.
3: Recurse through all the files in the directory on the user-end
4: For each file, upload.
>
This would be in the code-behind of course.
>
"K Viltersten" <t...@vilterste n.comwrote in message
>
news:op.uaqh321 mi74t80@lp028.p agero.local...
If i go as follows:
>
<asp:FileUplo ad ID="dirTemp" runat="server" Width="400px" /><br />
>
The element i create is requiring me to select a file. Can i use this
control to point out a directory? Is there another one?
>
--
Konrad Viltersten

Does JS let you "3: Recurse through all the files in the directory on
the user-end "???

[K Viltersten]

SV: Uploading a directory instead of a file

1: User chooses directory they wish to upload.

2: Create directory on the server.
3: Recurse through all the files in the
directory on the user-end
4: For each file, upload.
>
This would be in the code-behind of course.

Good scheme but how would one do item 1? The
only way to select the directory i've found
this far is to type it in into a text box.
That method will be very error prone...

--
Regards
Konrad Viltersten
--------------------------------
sleep - a substitute for coffee for the poor
ambition - lack of sense to be lazy

[Peter Duniho]

Re: SV: Uploading a directory instead of a file

On Tue, 06 May 2008 21:17:32 -0700, K Viltersten <tmp1@vilterste n.com>
wrote:

>1: User chooses directory they wish to upload.
>2: Create directory on the server.
>3: Recurse through all the files in the directory on the user-end
>4: For each file, upload.
> This would be in the code-behind of course.

>
Good scheme but how would one do item 1?

Granted, you're asking an ASP question in a general C# newsgroup, so this
might not apply to you. But there's the FolderBrowserDi alog class.

Pete

[K Viltersten]

Re: SV: Uploading a directory instead of a file

>>1: User chooses directory they wish to upload.

>>2: Create directory on the server.
>>3: Recurse through all the files in the directory on the user-end
>>4: For each file, upload.
>> This would be in the code-behind of course.

>>
>Good scheme but how would one do item 1?

>
Granted, you're asking an ASP question in a general C# newsgroup, so
this might not apply to you. But there's the FolderBrowserDi alog class.

Hehe, this is awkward... I _THOUGHT_ it was an ASP.NET group. :)

It must be the switch of my news client, i geuss... You info was, as you
very accurately anticipated, not of much use in my case. But that's my
fault, of course. Sorry for that and thanks!

Konrad Viltersten

[Peter Duniho]

Re: SV: Uploading a directory instead of a file

On Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:26 -0700, K Viltersten <tmp1@vilterste n.com>
wrote:

Hehe, this is awkward... I _THOUGHT_ it was an ASP.NET group. :)

Not a hard mistake to make, as there are a few ASP.NET experts (well, they
seem expert to me anyway :) ) who do answer ASP questions here.

But, glad to help redirect you...I hope you get a better answer from the
correct newsgroup. :) I would hope that, assuming there's any sort of
common file dialog support at all in ASP.NET, they'd include an equivalent
to the folder browser dialog.

Pete