Handling file uploads with a form

In this recipe, we dive into managing file uploads in Blazor applications. File uploading is crucial for any modern web application that requires users to upload documents or images. The InputFile component simplifies the integration of file uploads with its simple but comprehensive API. Moreover, with a little additional coding, you can enable drag-and-drop behavior for file uploads.

Let’s add a simple form that allows users to upload a file representing an event cover.

Getting ready

Before we implement the form with file uploads, do the following:

• Create a Chapter06/Recipe05 directory – this will be your working directory
• Copy FileStorage from the Chapter06/Data directory in the GitHub repository

How to do it…

Follow these steps to enable file uploads in an interactive form:

1. Open your application’s Program file and add the FileStorage service to the dependency injection container...