hi,

how can i show progress bar when i am uploading files to web sever

in asp.net application.

Please,any of you give solution.

Thank You,

Subhashini Palanivel.

Short answer: you can't.

When you upload a file, the browser is appending the file binary data to the form post information. Your application won't even start processing the request until it has been completely received by the server. This means that if you upload a file that takes 10 seconds to travel to the server, your application will not start responding to the request for 10 seconds after the user hits the submit button. Unfortunately there isn't anything you can do about this behavior.

-Peter

hi...
this is possible if u r using AJAX.

Care to share with us how would one do this using AJAX?

-Peter

I am wondering how this can be done via AJAX also. To make this work, you will have to use an external application other than the browser that can track upload count.
AJAX can only be monitored by states. Completed, Incompleted, Error, and TimeOut. Those states are the current status of the AJAX request if it got through and processed or not. From this you still can't get the ticks of a file uploading. I may have added an extra state, been awhile since I did any manual AJAX stuff. :)

Quick209,

I'm going to agree with you there. At the end of the day, HTTP is still HTTP. Unless I'm mistaken and there are new features to the standard DOM, you can't monitor the progress of an HTTP request (whether or not it's AJAX) as you suggest.

-Peter