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I'm running into an issue where I have a FileUpload control in an UpdatePanel. When I attempt to save changes and upload the file, no file is found. If I remove the UpdatePanel everything seems to work fine.

Any ideas why this might be happening? And is there a work-around?

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To upload a file you need to perform a full ASP.NET page postback, it does not operate over the partial postback method.

You'll need to register the button which "uploads" your file as a PostBackTrigger of the UpdatePanel's triggers.

There are lots of free (and non-free) AJAX file upload solutions, or you can easily create one, it's just a matter of putting your file upload control within an iframe and submitting the iframe page back to the server. It isn't really ajax, but it gives a visual impression of AJAX.

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Took me a bit the first time and I've had to show this to people I work with quite a few times
Do you have any links to alternative AJAX file upload solutions?
geekswithblogs.net/rashid/archive/2007/08/01/… is a link to making one yourself. be careful with UpdatePanels, they can be poor performers see: aaron-powell.com/blog.aspx?id=1195 and aaron-powell.com/blog.aspx?id=1209
Also take a look at this for slow performance of an UpdatePanel blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/09/15/…
Yeah seen your post Tom, I'm a regular reader and have that particular post flagged for keeping ;) Only thing is your method doesn't get around the response size, which can still be very large

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