Use the Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.MultipartReader because it…

can parse any stream [with] minimal buffering. It gives you the headers and body of each section one at a time and then you do what you want with the body of that section (buffer, discard, write to disk, etc.).

Here is a middleware example.

app.Use(async (context, next) =>
{
    if (!IsMultipartContentType(context.Request.ContentType))
    {
        await next();
        return;
    }

    var boundary = GetBoundary(context.Request.ContentType);
    var reader = new MultipartReader(boundary, context.Request.Body);
    var section = await reader.ReadNextSectionAsync();

    while (section != null)
    {
        // process each image
        const int chunkSize = 1024;
        var buffer = new byte[chunkSize];
        var bytesRead = 0;
        var fileName = GetFileName(section.ContentDisposition);

        using (var stream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Append))
        {
            do
            {
                bytesRead = await section.Body.ReadAsync(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
                stream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);

            } while (bytesRead > 0);
        }

        section = await reader.ReadNextSectionAsync();
    }

    context.Response.WriteAsync("Done.");
});

Here are the helpers.

private static bool IsMultipartContentType(string contentType)
{
    return 
        !string.IsNullOrEmpty(contentType) &&
        contentType.IndexOf("multipart/", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) >= 0;
}

private static string GetBoundary(string contentType)
{
    var elements = contentType.Split(' ');
    var element = elements.Where(entry => entry.StartsWith("boundary=")).First();
    var boundary = element.Substring("boundary=".Length);
    // Remove quotes
    if (boundary.Length >= 2 && boundary[0] == '"' && 
        boundary[boundary.Length - 1] == '"')
    {
        boundary = boundary.Substring(1, boundary.Length - 2);
    }
    return boundary;
}

private string GetFileName(string contentDisposition)
{
    return contentDisposition
        .Split(';')
        .SingleOrDefault(part => part.Contains("filename"))
        .Split('=')
        .Last()
        .Trim('"');
}

External References

• https://github.com/aspnet/HttpAbstractions/pull/146
• https://github.com/aspnet/HttpAbstractions

Shaun Luttin’s answer is great, and now much of the work he’s demonstrated is provided by ASP.Net Core 2.2.

Get the boundary:

// Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Extensions.HttpRequestMultipartExtensions
var boundary = Request.GetMultipartBoundary();

if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(boundary))
  return BadRequest();

You still get a section as follows:

var reader = new MultipartReader(boundary, Request.Body);
var section = await reader.ReadNextSectionAsync();

Check the disposition and convert to FileMultipartSection:

if (section.GetContentDispositionHeader() != null)
{
     var fileSection = section.AsFileSection();
     var fileName = fileSection.FileName;

     using (var stream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Append))
         await fileSection.FileStream.CopyToAsync(stream);
}

In your Controller you can simply use Request.Form.Files to access the files:

[HttpPost("upload")]
public async Task<IActionResult> UploadAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
    if (!Request.HasFormContentType)
        return BadRequest();

    var form = Request.Form;
    foreach(var formFile in form.Files)
    {
        using(var readStream = formFile.OpenReadStream())
        {
            // Do something with the uploaded file
        }
    }


    return Ok();
}