Connect to Amazon S3 storage
Environment
| Product | RadFileExplorer for ASP.NET AJAX |
DESCRIPTION
This article shows how to connect the RadFileExplorer control to the Amazon S3 storage.
SOLUTION
The bucket's name is hardcoded. The credentials for accessing Amazon service need to be set to the awsAccessKeyId and awsSecretAccessKey read-only properties.
The paths set to the ViewPaths, DeletePaths and UploadPaths properties follow this logic:
If we have this bucket : http://bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/, then in the provider, the BUCKET_NAME read-only property needs to be set to "bucket" value. The paths should point to the virtual folders in this bucket.
Two folders for example : http://bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/folder1 http://bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/folder2
string[] paths = new string[] { "folder1/", "folder2/" };
RadFileExplorer1.Configuration.ViewPaths = paths;
RadFileExplorer1.Configuration.DeletePaths = paths;
RadFileExplorer1.Configuration.UploadPaths = paths;
RadFileExplorer1.Configuration.ContentProviderTypeName = typeof(S3ContentProvider).AssemblyQualifiedName;
NOTE
In the earlier versions of the control the CheckDeletePermissions method does not exist and needs to be removed.
Additionally, you can consider trying the TNTDrive tool, allowing you to map an S3 bucket as a network drive. Once this is done you can create a virtual directory in the IIS application root which can be accessed after that with a standard virtual path (with ~/).
You can find atached the projects demonstrating the described approached here: