Maybe have a look at this package: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/gecko-uploadify. It also has a usercontrol for frontend uploading.

Jeroen

Thanks Jeroen, sadly the package didn't work, although I managed to solve my problem. For anyone with a similar problem here's my code:

@using umbraco.MacroEngines;
@using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.media;
@using umbraco.BusinessLogic;

@{
    Media UploadedMedia; 
    umbraco.BusinessLogic.User Me = umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.GetUser(0);
    var fileName = "";
    if (IsPost)
    {
        var fileSavePath = "";
        var uploadedFile = Request.Files[0];      
        fileName = Path.GetFileName(uploadedFile.FileName);
        fileSavePath = Server.MapPath("~/media/" + fileName);
        uploadedFile.SaveAs(fileSavePath);
        FileInfo info = new FileInfo(fileSavePath);
        string[] ext = fileName.Split('.');
        UploadedMedia = Media.MakeNew(fileName,MediaType.GetByAlias("File"),Me,1058);
        UploadedMedia.getProperty("umbracoFile").Value = "/media/" + fileName;
        UploadedMedia.getProperty("umbracoBytes").Value = info.Length;
        UploadedMedia.getProperty("umbracoExtension").Value = ext[1];
        UploadedMedia.Save(); 
       
    }
  }  
   
    @FileUpload.GetHtml(
        initialNumberOfFiles: 1,
        allowMoreFilesToBeAdded: false,
        includeFormTag: true,
        uploadText: "Upload")
    @if (IsPost)
    {
        File uploaded!

    }

Thanks for this

Just a note (stumbled on this myself just now) - if you're not using includeFormTag (for example within a bigger form), you'll need to add the attribute enctype="multipart/form-data" to your form tag to get the files.

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