Upload document to document library using web service

Hi All,

Today we will see how to upload document to the document library using its web services. May times we need this feature from any ASP.NET application or just any other java application to upload document to the document library.

That is why SharePoint web services come into the picture.

Here is a simple way you can upload the document.

I have one windows application created and for demo purpose, I am writing a code directly in button click event.

You need to reference copy.aspx web service. Here DownLoadSharePointDocument is the name of web reference name.

private void button5_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DownloadSharePointDocument.Copy copyService = new EncryptAndDecrypt.DownloadSharePointDocument.Copy();

copyService.Url = "{url}/" + "_vti_bin/copy.asmx";

copyService.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

string[] DestinationUrl = (“url goes here” };
string strSource = @"C:\SmartSurvey.pdf";


DownloadSharePointDocument.CopyResult FirstResult = new DownloadSharePointDocument.CopyResult();
DownloadSharePointDocument.CopyResult SecondResult = new DownloadSharePointDocument.CopyResult();
DownloadSharePointDocument.CopyResult[] ArrayOfResult = { FirstResult, SecondResult };
DownloadSharePointDocument.FieldInformation fFiledInfo = new DownloadSharePointDocument.FieldInformation();
fFiledInfo.DisplayName = "Description";
fFiledInfo.Type = DownloadSharePointDocument.FieldType.Text;
fFiledInfo.Value = "This is the test description";
DownloadSharePointDocument.FieldInformation[] fFiledInfoArray = { fFiledInfo };

FileStream objStream = new FileStream(strSource, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
byte[] Contents = new Byte[objStream.Length];
byte[] r = new Byte[objStream.Length];
int Read= objStream.Read(Contents, 0, Convert.ToInt32(objStream.Length));
objStream.Close();

uint copyresult = copyService.CopyIntoItems(strSource, DestinationUrl, fFiledInfoArray, Contents, out ArrayOfResult);

}

Make sure that you pass proper administrative credentials while passing the network credentials.

return value of uint should be zero to indicate a success. if it is not zero, then something is wrong and document will not upload successfully.

That is it. You have just uploaded the document to the document library.