Passing Data From WinForms Application To MVC3

I am working on an application that has a Winforms and MVC3 Web component. We need to be able upload large files from the desktop to the web. I have tried the various VB 2010 WebClient and FTP FileUpload alternatives but continue to run into permission issues, even though the User-ID and password I supply are the same as those used by an FTP application that successfully copies files to the same MVC3 site. In my efforts to find alternative solutions, I have looked into using WCF which also seems complicated and problematic for this particular application.

The closest I have come to a solution utilizes HttpWebRequest on the Winforms application. The following VB 2010 and C# code (MVC3) successfully passes the Filename and File data to MVC3 (the InputStream contains the references and UrlEncode data, but the class containing the fields for this data are null. (I have also passed just the file data without the filename, and the uploaded file is successfully created from the InputStream - but the method variable is still null). Although I could pick apart the InputStream, I would prefer a more elegant alternative.

VB 2010 Winforms method:
Public Shared Sub FileUpload(ByVal Filepath As String)
Try
Dim Host = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("Host")
Dim url As String = Path.Combine(Host, "UI/FileUpload")
Dim request As HttpWebRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(url)
request.Method = "POST"
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