Use FileBrowserContentProvider with Physical Path

Requirements
RadControls version	Q1 & Q2  2009
.NET version	3.5
Visual Studio version	2008
programming language	C#
browser support	all browsers supported by RadControls

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
I have a content editing system I'm building to host websites for customers.  The admin utility is a part of it's own website and needs the ability to allow users to use RadEdit to upload and utilize images which reside in folders in their own web apps.

So I needed a way to copy, manipulate files using a phyical path such as c:\inetpub\customerA\images while the admin application resides in C:\inetpub\CMSUI.

Using the DB example, I modified the code to create RadEditorRelativeProvider and also the Handler.ashx to accomplish what I set out to do.  You'll need to make sure the account running IIS has permission to the folders.

The only functionality I added to this is allowing a user to open the imagemanager, and selct a file and upload files.  Any other functionality of the 

FileBrowserContentProvider

you'll need to add your own code.

Also, you'll need to add the Telerik.web.UI.dll to the bin folder to get this to run.

Hi Kris,

Thank you for the provided solution - it will surely be useful for the other members of the Telerik community.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

Update:  There is some kind of issue when the imagemanager opens with this code with the Q1 09 version.  The exception which gets thrown is there is an invalid escape sequence when it tries to populate the files of a directory.

I can't say what the issue is but it doesn't happen with Q2 2009 version.  I stumbled upon this after I originally wrote this separate in a project using the Q2 2009 assembly which I posted here.  I then integrated the code into a project which I had the Q1 version of Telerik running Image Manager would throw an exception.

Again, I'm not sure where the problem lies but I can only vouch that this works in Q2.

Additionally, if you have an admin directory other than the websites you're updating, you'll need to change the appSetting for the handler to this.

<

 

add key="CMS.ItemHandler" value="Handler.ashx"/>

You'll also need to update the code in the constructor so it doesn't prepend the applicationPath.

Something such as this:  (You'll see the existing code is in this snippet commented out.

 

Hi, 
I'm try this sample but doesn't work with the subfolders
I have the following situation:;
this is my root
E:\eTeamsNet_FileSystem\ALD\PublicFiles\NewFolder\
and I can see all the files jpg files in this folder
but
I have also a folder "media" under this level
E:\eTeamsNet_FileSystem\ALD\PublicFiles\NewFolder\media

and the  image manager don't show me the contents
only if I add media to the
 REditContentArea.ImageManager.ViewPaths 
property
I can see the files inside 
but why ??
I whould like to navigate from the root under the subfolders
thanks

Hi,

My suggestion is to try the solution in this KB article: Use RadFileExplorer with physical and shared folder's paths.

Kind regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team