ASP.NET MVC Server File Browsers

Question

Hi,

On my current project we would like to expose some server directories to the client so they can control their own assets/static HTML/CSS etc. The existing web forms project is being replaced by MVC and I am struggling to find an out of the box server file browser with which to expose this functionality.

Here is an example for WebForms: Telerik FileExplorer demo

Can anyone recommend a decent alternative which is designed for the MVC framework? We don't mind paying license fees, however something extensible and preferably open source would be better :)

Answer 1

Look for some jQuery,Ajax based file managers

some links to start with

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/SFBrowser

http://riderdesign.com/articles/Build-a-file-tree-explorer-with-jQuery-and-ASP.NET.aspx

Answer 2

[Full Disclosure: I work for Telerik.]

Telerik has not yet recreated the RadFileExplorer reusable UI experience for MVC, but we do have a powerful Treeview in our open source Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. Using the Treeview, you can easily create a server file explorer using techniques similar to those in the RiderDesign article highlighted by Ajay. One advantage of using the Telerik Extensions vs. something like a JavaScript UI plug-in is that you get server and client-side rendering, improving your application's accessibility and behavior in non-JS clients.

You can learn more about using the Treeview in these online examples:

http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/TreeView

Hope that helps.