Pretty new to Windows Azure. I've followed this tutorial: tutorial. It works perfectly however one limitation is that for the application I have in mind, it would need to be possible to upload multiple files relatively quickly.
Is it possible to modify the tutorial to support multi-file uploads, e.g. The user can use shift-click to select multiple files..
Or if anyone knows of any good tutorials detailing the above?
Any help is appreciated,
Thanks
I'd take a look at this tutorial from DotNetCurry which shows how to create a multiple file upload using jQuery to handle the multiple uploading of files to an ASP.NET page. It's built using ASP.NET 3.5, but it shouldn't matter if you're using .NET 4 - there's nothing too crazy going on.
But the key is that the jQuery plug-in will allow you to upload a collection of files to the server. The ASP.NET code behind will handle that by looping through the Request.Files
collection:
HttpFileCollection hfc = Request.Files;
for (int i = 0; i < hfc.Count; i++)
{
HttpPostedFile hpf = hfc[i];
if (hpf.ContentLength > 0)
{
hpf.SaveAs(Server.MapPath("MyFiles") + "\\" +
System.IO.Path.GetFileName(hpf.FileName));
Response.Write("<b>File: </b>" + hpf.FileName + " <b>Size:</b> " +
hpf.ContentLength + " <b>Type:</b> " + hpf.ContentType + " Uploaded Successfully <br/>");
}
}
You would put this code in your tutorial in the insertButton_Click
event handler - essentially putting the blob creation and uploading to blob storage inside the above code's if(hpf.ContentLength>0)
block.
So pseudo-code may look like:
protected void insertButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
HttpFileCollection hfc = Request.Files;
for (int i = 0; i < hfc.Count; i++)
{
HttpPostedFile hpf = hfc[i];
// Make a unique blob name
string extension = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(hpf.FileName);
// Create the Blob and upload the file
var blob = _BlobContainer.GetBlobReference(Guid.NewGuid().ToString() + extension);
blob.UploadFromStream(hpf.InputStream);
// Set the metadata into the blob
blob.Metadata["FileName"] = fileNameBox.Text;
blob.Metadata["Submitter"] = submitterBox.Text;
blob.SetMetadata();
// Set the properties
blob.Properties.ContentType = hpf.ContentType;
blob.SetProperties();
}
}
Again, it's just pseudo-code, so I'm assuming that's how it would work. I didn't test the syntax, but I think it's close.
I hope this helps. Good luck!