InfoPath Dev

I've read through all of the articles on this forum about how to save a file attachment from an infopath form, but i havent yet been able to really get it to work.  My form already has a whole bunch of C# code in it, so the qDabra rules won't work.  I've tried to use the bizsupportonline.net examples:

http://www.bizsupportonline.net/blog/2009/01/submit-infopath-form-sharepoint-list-attachment/
http://www.bizsupportonline.net/blog/2009/02/submit-file-attached-infopath-form-as-attachment-sharepoint-list-item/

but can't get either one to work as i dont have access to the sharepoint server to get the microsoft.sharepoint.dll file to complile the code.

I found this article, which i can get to work, but it saves the attachment to a folder on the local machine.  I'd love to tweak this one a little to have it save to a document library rather than the local disk.  The form submit the info to a sharepoint list, if i could get the attachment to attach to that list item that would be best, but if not, at least submit the attachment to a document library and have a way to link the two so that price quotes will be attached to the request form.

http://chrissyblanco.blogspot.com/2006/07/infopath-2007-file-attachment-control.html

Here is the code i'm using that is working thus far:

XPathNavigator opnXN = docXN.SelectSingleNode

// Position 20 contains a DWORD indicating the length of the

// filename buffer. The filename is stored as Unicode so the

// length is multiplied by 2.

byte[] fnBytes = new byte[fnLength];

// The actual filename starts at position 24 . . .

// Convert the filename bytes to a string. The string

// terminates with \0 so the actual filename is the

// original filename minus the last character !

// The file is located after the header, which is 24 bytes long

// plus the length of the filename.

// We now have an array of bytes (fileContents) which we can

// do what we like with. I'll write them to a temporary file

Hi there,

I've been trying to achieve a similiar thing myself, and as far as I understand qDabra is the only way to do it (as you can't upload files directly through infopath or sharepoint as it is). I believe there is a way to do this using K2's SmartObjects, but i haven't tried this myself.

Maybe a sneaky way could be to establish a web service you can call, submitting the base64 data and the web service itself saves it as a file?

Let me know if you find a solution, i'd be very interested to see one :)

Did you ever get this to work?

I was able to get it to work with the following code:

public void CTRL35_5_Clicked(object sender, ClickedEventArgs e)

// Write your code here.

XPathNavigator mainDS = MainDataSource.CreateNavigator();

string base64EncodedString = mainDS.SelectSingleNode(

"my:myFields/my:Attachment", NamespaceManager).Value;

if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(base64EncodedString))

InfoPathAttachmentDecoder decoder =

new DecoderInfoPathA.InfoPathAttachmentDecoder(base64EncodedString);

File.WriteAllBytes(

@\\Your\Path\Here + decoder.Filename, decoder.DecodedAttachment);