File Upload Controls using Razor in ASP.NET MVC3

Question

Is there a way to define the file upload controls using a Razor helper in ASP.NET MVC3?

Answer 1

There is a FileUpload class in Microsoft.Web.Helpers... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.web.helpers.fileupload(v=vs.99).aspx

The best/only way I've found to get it is by using NuGet in VisualStudio. Search for package "microsoft-web-helpers" in the online repository. There is one problem I encountered, however. One of the package's dependencies is Facebook.Helper, which it will install at the same time. It will place a file called "Facebook???.cshtml" (forgot the exact name) in your project's AppCode directory. The problem is that the Facebook???.cshtml had some WebMatrix dependencies that I didn't have and didn't want to install. Simply deleting the Facebook.cshtml file (which I wasn't going to use, anyway) seemed to resolve the issue. After that, I was able to compile and debug as usual and use the FileUpload class.

Here's a tutorial I found that utilizes it:

http://blog.tallan.com/2011/02/04/using-mvc3-razor-helpers-and-jcrop-to-upload-and-crop-images/