Originally Posted by JohnH

Use one of the other UploadFile methods where you can specify more parameters, one of them is the showUI Boolean value which make it display progress and allow user to cancel. You can also tell it what to do if users cancels, ie do nothing or throw an exception. The user and pass parameters you can set to empty string, which is also default values for the UploadFile overload you're using now.

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