I need help saving an retriving files to a Local disk

BlackKnight · March 10th, 2009, 11:31 AM

Hello Everyone:
I am new in programming and I need some assistance on saving and retriving files to a local drive. I am using VB2005

I have created a project that allows the user to add a new record, sometimes, the user needs to add backup, this could be a word, txt, pdf, picture, any file type.

I would like to give the user an option to OpenFileDialog and select a file and then save it to a local drive. example C:\Program Files\Support\Attachments. I will be adding a link on the form with the file name.. when someone else edit that record and clicks on the lick to be able to view the file.

I thank evryone in advance.

BK

gbianchi · March 10th, 2009, 11:58 AM

Hi there..

You are looking for IO namespace. You have there all the info about saving, retrieving, and working with files (and folder, and disk). Also for the File Dialog, you have the control File dialog that allow you to specify the name of the file (with the folder and all the standard window behaviour).

BlackKnight · March 10th, 2009, 12:09 PM

Thank you gbianchi

Do you happen to know where I can find some sample code is possible?
Thanks,
again

gbianchi · March 10th, 2009, 12:14 PM

Thanks button is bottom right ;).. Anyway, MSDN on line has a lot of resources about it. (also google has a lot, lot of examples about it).

BlackKnight · March 10th, 2009, 12:27 PM

Thank you much :-)

pratikasthana · April 2nd, 2009, 12:22 AM

Hi,
Try it

Code:

If FileUpload1.FileName <> "" Then
                    FileUpload1.SaveAs(MapPath("~/userimages/" & txtUName.Value & System.IO.Path.GetExtension(FileUpload1.FileName)))
                End If

where "userimages" -- is the folder on server/local disk
"txtUName.Value" -- will file name
"System.IO.Path.GetExtension(FileUpload1.FileName) "-- Extension of file