How to upload images to web server in web api in MVC

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HI i am at learning phase of web api in asp.net mvc.

i want to upload image to web server online using WEB API by posting data.
i want to take that path of web server to the database with the converted image to base64 but it tooks too much lengthy string. how to upload this and get short length image path in web api.
please help

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i have tried this please help me to get the short length image path using web api

string fn = string.Empty;
var element2 = image.Split(',')[1];
fn = username + "_" + labTestId + ".jpg";
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(element2));
string folder_name = "lab-orders";
folder_name = folder_name.ToLower();
string SaveLocation = ServerConfig.BlobPath + folder_name + "/" + fn;
BlobUploader.UploadTo(folder_name, fn, ms);

LabTestNames labtstnames = new LabTestNames();
labtstnames.ImagePath = SaveLocation;

Posted 10-Jan-18 0:49am

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Updated 10-Jan-18 1:10am

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F-ES Sitecore 10-Jan-18 7:14am

Not sure what you're actual question is but it looks like you need to implement an action that returns your image from the database as a binary response.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/880515/display-image-from-database-in-asp-mvc

Member 13605985 11-Jan-18 1:15am

i want to upload image to server from web api

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debasish mishra · Answer 1 · 2018-01-10T01:10:00

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Uploading Image To Server Using Web API 2.0[^]

Posted 10-Jan-18 1:10am

debasish mishra