Transfer File via WebService

[Mark Irvine]

Hi,

I'm working on an application that needs to be able to transfer Excel files
from remote users (using tablet pc's) to a central server. Is it possible
to encode the Excel file in such a way so as to use web services to transfer
the file?

If not are there any other good solutions?

Any help would be appreciated,

Mark

[Vadym Stetsyak]

FTP server can be used by user to upload a file to the server.

Web service approach can also be used, however if the file is big, you will
have to exted the web service contract ( methods that will accept chunked
file and append it to received part )

Also you can apload a file by means of HTTP
( http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/091201-1.shtml )

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Vadym Stetsyak aka Vadmyst
http://vadmyst.blogspot.com

"Mark Irvine" <ma*********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm working on an application that needs to be able to transfer Excel
files
from remote users (using tablet pc's) to a central server. Is it possible
to encode the Excel file in such a way so as to use web services to
transfer
the file?

If not are there any other good solutions?

Any help would be appreciated,

Mark

[Marc Gravell]

Well, as a cheapo answer you could expose a byte[] param on the web service?

And stop screaming everyone! I am (of course) talking about WSE3.0 with the
improved MTOM byte[] handling!
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...03561d0255.asp

That said, my current document management system simply upoads the file's
binary in a POST (suitably encoded), which I then retreive using a standard
(ashx) handler which reads the binary directly. Since I own both ends of
this (non-standard) channel, I also explicitely use the System.Compression
classes to transmit this as a GZIPd format to reduce bandwidth.

You could also look at the WebClient - this has an UploadFile method which
(I assume - never used) does a multi-part upload which you could obtain in
an aspx or ashx.

Any help?

Marc