The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM - Red Gate Software

Chapter 5: FILESTREAM with ASP.NETand SilverlightThis chapter will explain how to access FILESTREAM data from applications builtusing ASP.NET and Silverlight. It will adopt a very hands-on approach, consisting ofthe six labs below.• Lab 4: Uploading files to a FILESTREAM database from an ASP.NET web page.• Lab 5: Deploying and configuring a FILESTREAM web application on IIS.• Lab 6: Creating a web handler to serve images from a FILESTREAM database.• Lab 7: Displaying thumbnail images of items from a FILESTREAM database onan ASP.NET web page.• Lab 8: Using SqlFileStream in an N-tier scenario.• Lab 9: Playing a video stored in a FILESTREAM database on a Silverlight application.The functionalities that we try to implement in these labs are probably familiar to mostof you. The first five labs in this chapter deal with uploading and downloading image files.Most developers will have done this numerous times in their applications, by uploadingthose files to a location on the server and serving the files upon client request later. Whatis different in these labs is that we will store the data in the FILESTREAM column of adatabase table, then serve client requests from there.We'll use the same sample database for Labs 4–8 in this chapter, as shown in Listing 5-1.165