Asp.net- How to Get Full File Path from Fileupload Control in Firefox or IE

Introduction:

Here I will explain how to get full path of uploaded file from fileupload control from client machine in Firefox or IE in asp.net using C#, VB.NET.

Description:

In previous posts I explained Ajax AsyncFileUpload control example in asp.net, upload and download files from folder in asp.net, asp.net, C#, SQL Server Interview Questions, jQuery validate file extension in file upload control and many articles relating to asp.net, C#, VB.NET code snippets. Now I will explain how to get full path from fileupload control in asp.net using C#, VB.NET.

In many forums I saw the question like How to get full path from fileupload control from client machine?

For this question answer is we don’t have chance to get full path of uploaded file from fileupload control because of some security reasons browsers will return only file name instead of full file path from client machine.  

If you want to get full path of uploaded file from fileupload control from client machine we need to save that file in our application folder from that we can get path of that file like as shown below

string filename = Path.GetFileName(fileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName); fileUpload1.SaveAs(Server.MapPath("Files/"+filename)); string filepath = "Files/"+filename;