using csvhelper (nuGET) with C# MVC to import CSV files

This is my first version, I will update as I amend things and make it more complete but this gives me all the data in string arrays.

   [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult UploadFile(HttpPostedFileBase file)
        {

            ICsvParser csvParser = new CsvParser(new StreamReader(file.InputStream));
            CsvReader csvReader = new CsvReader(csvParser);
            string[] headers = {};
            List<string[]> rows = new List<string[]>();
            string[] row;
            while (csvReader.Read())
            {
                // Gets Headers if they exist
                if (csvReader.HasHeaderRecord && !headers.Any())
                {
                    headers = csvReader.FieldHeaders;
                }
                row = new string[headers.Count()];
                for (int j = 0; j < headers.Count(); j++)
                {
                    row[j] = csvReader.GetField(j);
                }
                rows.Add(row);
            }
            ImportViewModel model = new ImportViewModel(rows);
            return View(model);
        }

There is a CsvFieldAttribute that you can put on your property where you can either put the name of csv field, or the index of the csv field. Name will only work if there is a header row in the csv file.

public class MyCustomClass
{
    [CsvField( FieldIndex = 1 )]
    public string Property1 { get; set; }

    [CsvField( FieldIndex = 0 )]
    public string Property2 { get; set; }

    [CsvField( FieldIndex = 2 )]
    public string Property3 { get; set; }
}

If all you want to do is read a record into a string array in the order that it's in in the file, you can just use CsvParser instead of CsvReader. Calling CsvParser.Read() returns a string[]. CsvReader uses CsvParser to read the raw data.

https://github.com/JoshClose/CsvHelper/wiki/Fluent-Class-Mapping