MVC - Saving Files AND Json Model

When posting files in MVC using AJAX, Microsoft gives us a great tool, the Request.Files collection. However, when passing files via ajax, MVC ignores your json model that you pass as well. You can see the way around this in the code snippets below.



And in our javascript, using jQuery's ajax() method...




I add the json model to the FormData collection. Once that's done, I can pull it from the Request.Form[] Name Value collection when it posts to the server.