csXMultiUpload 1.0

An ActiveX / OCX control for selecting and uploading multiple files. It uses a file open dialogue box to select the files. It is easy to use and digitally signed.
This ActiveX control allows the end user to select and upload files to a remote server as an HTTP post. It uses a standard file open dialogue box with multiple selections allowed.
Main features:
- Enable your users to easily select multiple files for upload.
- Uses HTTP to POST files to a server.
- Files can be filtered by type and / or size.
- Progress bar to show the status of the upload.
- Text on buttons and messages can be edited to provide language support options.
- Royalty free distribution of the OCX file.
- Fully functional free trial.
- Signed CAB file supplied with both full and trial versions.
This control can be used in an Internet Explorer web page as an alternative to the Browse button for selecting files for upload. It allows multiple files to be selected before posting them to the server as an HTTP upload. csXMultiUpload is digitally signed.
Alternatively, csXMultiUpload can be used in a COM enabled Windows programming environment such as Visual Basic or Delphi to add file upload functionality. It can be dropped onto a form and once the RemoteURL property is set it can be used with no further coding required.
Below is a screen shot of csXMultiUpload (with no files selected). The Browse button opens a file upload dialogue box which can be used to select multiple files if the CTRL or shift keys are pressed. Files can be added to the control or removed and when the list is complete the Upload button starts the upload process. Each file is posted as a separate post rather than grouping them all together to make an unfeasibly large upload. Form variables can also be passed with the upload batch.
As files are selected the buttons become enabled and some status information becomes visible during uploading. Once the upload starts the Browse button is replaced with an Abort button to allow the user to stop the process.
Files uploaded using csXMultiUpload need a script or cgi on the server that is capable of saving the file. The instructions explain how to save file uploads in ASP, ASP.NET, Cold Fusion and PHP. We offer an ASP component, csASPUpload, that can be used for saving uploaded files in ASP, and an ASP.NET component csNetUpload for saving in ASP.NET.
Version restrictions:
- trial version displays a message box after each file is uploaded