How to automatically upload file after file has been chosen

Question

I have the following code for uploading a file in my site:

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Answer 1

FileUpload does not support any kind of automatically upload a chosen file to the server. You will have to provide some kind of mechanism - see MSDN

Saving Uploaded Files

The FileUpload control does not automatically save a file to the server after the user selects the file to upload. You must explicitly provide a control or mechanism to allow the user to submit the specified file. For example, you can provide a button that the user clicks to upload the file. The code that you write to save the specified file should call the SaveAs method, which saves the contents of a file to a specified path on the server. Typically, the SaveAs method is called in an event-handling method for an event that raises a post back to the server. ...