Uploading files in a ASP.NET MVC Web api controller

@nikhil pinto: The ASP.NET Web API helps you to create REST-Web service which can be consumed by any kind of client supporting HTTP request. I found this article here

http://hintdesk.com/android-upload-files-to-asp-net-web-api-service

very good because it illustrates how we can call the web service from different clients. Just check it out.

Web Api code to upload image

[System.Web.Http.AcceptVerbs("POST")]
        public async Task<object> AddAttachment()
        {
            if (!Request.Content.IsMimeMultipartContent("form-data"))
            {
                throw new HttpResponseException(Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.UnsupportedMediaType));
            }

            NamedMultipartFormDataStreamProvider streamProvider = new NamedMultipartFormDataStreamProvider(
                HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/"));

            await Request.Content.ReadAsMultipartAsync(streamProvider);
            string path = streamProvider.FileData.Select(entry => entry.LocalFileName).First();
            byte[] imgdata = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(path);

            return new
            {
                FileNames = streamProvider.FileData.Select(entry => entry.LocalFileName),

            };
        }