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by Jeff Atwood

November 26, 2004

WebFileManager

I posted a new CodeProject article, Web File Manager:

I often deploy ASP.NET websites to servers that I don't control. In these situations, I can't get to the underlying filesystem to do any file maintenance, because I don't have direct access to the server. For various reasons, I often need to access the filesystem indirectly, through the website that I am deploying. Rather than writing a bunch of special purpose pages to deal with file management, I developed a generic WebFileManager page than can be dropped into any ASP.NET website. This page performs the most common file and folder operations.

Nothing earth shattering, but I find it very useful. I will respond to any feedback left on the article page.

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Please upload the zip-file again, the file seem to be corrupt.

/Martin

Martin on November 27, 2004 6:52 AM

Doh! Thanks for letting me know, I re-uploaded the .zip. Seems to be OK now.

Jeff Atwood on November 27, 2004 2:03 PM

Great idea. It is also a good tool against your IT department, they never want to give you any rights on the prod box, so this is a good app to install on the web server and get around them.

rizzo on November 27, 2004 4:19 PM

Web File Manager was moved to here:
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/WebFileManager.asp

Chris Baker on November 20, 2006 4:45 PM
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