I am working on a social media application with a UseregistrationController that needs to upload a user profile image of each user in the application. I want to retain the File input on the same Create/Edit view as the other fields i.e Name, Display Name, Email Address, Phone Number, etc.

So basically I need a registration page where the user must enter several database fields, including an image file. i.e post File Upload and other form fields to one action in ASP.NET MVC.
I have completed my task successfully so I thought let’s share the idea with other developers also so that they can get help.

In this post, we will cover the following points

  1. File Upload input as Part of Form with Other Fields
  2. How to pass other form data field along with MVC File Upload?
  3. MVC 5 Uploading file with one additional parameter
  4. MVC File Upload with more than one property

In the below articles I have explained about Uploading both data and files in FormData using Ajax MVC. Now I think you are clear about uploading the image file with form data in ASP.Net MVC applications. if you want do this task using the ajax call then read below article.

Let’s understand with an example, I have created an MVC view that has Name, Display Name, Email Address, Phone Number input fields inside a form.
and that form control has one file upload control for uploading the user profile picture. and we have specified the standard form elements with a file upload “multipart/form-data“. So multipart type handle for all form elements on the page.

@using (Html.BeginForm("RegisterUserProfile", "UserDashboard", FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "log-form", area = "user", enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))
                    {

                        <div class="form-group row">
                            <label class="col-form-label col-md-2">Full Name * </label>
                            <div class="col-md-10">
                                <input type="text" class="form-control" value="@ApplicationSession.UserSession.name" required name="fullname" id="fullname" placeholder="Enter Here">
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="form-group row">
                            <label class="col-form-label col-md-2">Display Name* </label>
                            <div class="col-md-10">
                                <input type="text" class="form-control" value="@ApplicationSession.UserSession.displayname" required name="displayname" id="displayname" placeholder="Enter Here">
                                <p style="color: #9a9999;padding-top: 5px;">This will be how your name will be displayed in the account section.</p>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="form-group row">
                            <label class="col-form-label col-md-2">Email Address * </label>
                            <div class="col-md-10">
                                <input type="email"  required name="emailaddress" value="@ApplicationSession.UserSession.email" id="emailaddress" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter Here">
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="form-group row">
                            <label class="col-form-label col-md-2">Phone Number * </label>
                            <div class="col-md-10">
                                <input type="tel" name="PhoneNumber" placeholder="Enter Here"  value="@ApplicationSession.UserSession.phone" id="PhoneNumber" class="form-control"  pattern="^\(?([0-9]{3})\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{3})[-. ]?([0-9]{4})$" required>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="form-group row">
                            <label class="col-form-label col-md-2">Upload Photo * </label>
                            <div class="col-md-10">
                                <input class="form-control"  type="file" name="file" id="file">
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="text-left">
                            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Save Changes</button>
                        </div>
                    }

Action Method Code

In action using the FormCollection object I’m getting form data value inside the controller and In Request.Files we can read our files.Using the entity framework and I’m performing insert in a database table.

// Post:RegisterUserProfile 
        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult RegisterUserProfile(FormCollection collection)
        {
            //getting form data
            string fullname = collection["fullname"];
            string displayname = collection["displayname"];
            string emailaddress = collection["emailaddress"];
            string phonenumber = collection["PhoneNumber"];
            try
            {
                StudentDbEntities db1 = new StudentDbEntities();
                var countuser = db1.Users.Where(a => a.Email == emailaddress.Trim()).Count();
                if (countuser == 0)
                {


                    using (StudentDbEntities  db = new StudentDbEntities())
                    {
                        User userobj = new User();
                        // Checking if  Request object  has file
                        if (Request.Files.Count > 0 && Request.Files[0].ContentLength > 0)           
                        {
                            HttpPostedFileBase file = Request.Files[0];
                            string fname = file.FileName;
                            // Get the complete folder path and store the file inside it.  
                            fname = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/Content/Images"), fname);
                            file.SaveAs(fname);
                            userobj.ProfilePicture = "/Content/Images/" + file.FileName;
                        }
                        userobj.Name = fullname;
                        userobj.DisplayName = displayname;
                        userobj.Email = emailaddress;
                        userobj.ContactNo = phonenumber;
                        db.Users.Add(userobj);
                        db.SaveChanges();
                        TempData["ModelError"] = "registered successfully";
                        return View("Index");
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    ViewData["error"] = "email already exist please try with diffrent one!";
                    return View("Index");
                }

            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                TempData["ModelError"] = ex.Message;
                return View("Index");
            }
        }

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MVC is a way in which we divide our database, logic, and visual part. The full form of MVC is Model-View-Controller, which means that we call the database the model, the logic part is known as the controller and the visual part is known as the view.

Talking about the technical language, it is such an architectural pattern, with the help of which project management, security, and productivity can be increased by dividing any project into 3 components.

We are not talking about anyone special programming language here because you can use it in any project, whether it is in PHP, ASP.NET, Nodejs, Python, you can use this method in all.

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