feat: Add FilesController to demonstrate how to change request body size on MVC level

Author: drwatson1

ProjectTemplates/AspNetCore.WebApi/ReferenceProject/ReferenceProject/Controllers/FilesController.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace ReferenceProject.Controllers
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// An example of a controller to upload files to demonstrate the request size limit setting (https://www.talkingdotnet.com/how-to-increase-file-upload-size-asp-net-core/)
+    /// </summary>
+    [Route("[controller]")]
+    [ApiController]
+    public class FilesController: ControllerBase
+    {
+        [HttpPost]
+        [Route("upload")]
+        [RequestSizeLimit(1048576)]
+        // This is not recommended
+        // [DisableRequestSizeLimit]
+        public Task<IActionResult> Upload(IFormFile file)
+        {
+            return Task.FromResult<IActionResult>(Ok($"Uploaded: {file.FileName}"));
+        }
+    }
+}

ProjectTemplates/AspNetCore.WebApi/ReferenceProject/ReferenceProject/Controllers/ProductsController.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 using AutoMapper;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
-using ReferenceProject.Exceptions;
 using ReferenceProject.Repo;
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;

ProjectTemplates/AspNetCore.WebApi/ReferenceProject/ReferenceProject/Startup.cs

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
                 .AddScoped<IUrlHelper>(x => x
                     .GetRequiredService<IUrlHelperFactory>()
                     .GetUrlHelper(x.GetRequiredService<IActionContextAccessor>().ActionContext))
-                .AddMvc(options =>
+                .AddMvcCore(options =>
                 {
                     options.Filters.Add(new ValidateModelFilter());
                     options.Filters.Add(new CacheControlFilter());

ProjectTemplates/AspNetCore.WebApi/ReferenceProject/ReferenceProject/web.config

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <configuration>
     <location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
+        <!-- This settings must be used along with requestLimits settings below -->
         <system.web>
             <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="1048576" executionTimeout="900"  maxUrlLength="4096" maxQueryStringLength="2048" />
         </system.web>
@@ -9,7 +10,7 @@
             <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="false">
                 <remove name="WebDAVModule" />
             </modules>            
-
+            
             <handlers>
                 <clear/>
                 <add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified" />
@@ -27,12 +28,12 @@
             <security>
                 <requestFiltering>
                     <!-- maxAllowedContentLength - Specifies the maximum length of content in a request, in bytes. The default value is 30000000 (~28.6 MB) and has
-                                       been reduced to 1048576 (1 MB). This setting is for IIS while the httpRuntime maxRequestLength setting is
-                                       for ASP.NET, you need to set both to the same value or the smaller number wins (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6327452/which-gets-priority-maxrequestlength-or-maxallowedcontentlength). -->
+                                       been reduced to 1048576 (1 MB). This setting is for IIS while the httpRuntime.maxRequestLength is
+                                       for ASP.NET, so you need to set both to the same value otherwise the smaller number wins (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6327452/which-gets-priority-maxrequestlength-or-maxallowedcontentlength). -->
                     <!-- maxQueryString - Specifies the maximum length of the query string, in bytes. The default value is 2048. This setting is for IIS while the
-                              httpRuntime maxQueryStringLength setting is for ASP.NET, you need to set both to the same value. -->
+                              httpRuntime.maxQueryStringLength is for ASP.NET, so you need to set up both to the same value. -->
                     <!-- maxUrl - Specifies maximum length of the URL, in bytes. The default value is 4096. This setting is for IIS while the
-                      httpRuntime maxUrlLength setting is for ASP.NET, you need to set both to the same value. -->
+                      httpRuntime.maxUrlLength is for ASP.NET, so you need to set both to the same value. -->
                     <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="1048576" maxQueryString="2048" maxUrl="4096" />
                 </requestFiltering>
             </security>