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Drag from external programs into you WPF applications using RadDragAndDropManager

by Tsvyatko Konov
December 08, 2010 Desktop, WPF 0 Comments


Since Q3 2010 we have introduced new drag mode, enabling native drag from and to your WPF applications. In this post I will show how to successfully perform drag drop operations from external program into your application through the RadDragAndDropManager API.

This can be achieved in several easy steps:

 

1. Set RadDragAndDropManager.EnableNativeDrag=”true”. This will enable native operations (if your application runs in full trust). The easiest way to do this is set it in StartUp event.

 

        private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
        {
            RadDragAndDropManager.EnableNativeDrag = true;
        }
 
2. Set the RadDragAndDropManager properties to enable the drop operation:
 
telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.AllowDrop="True"
telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.DropQuery="FileListGrid_DropQuery"
telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.DropInfo="FileListGrid_DropInfo"

 

and add the corresponding code within DropQuery and DropInfo

 

  private void FileListGrid_DropQuery(object sender, DragDropQueryEventArgs e)
        {
            if (!RadDragAndDropManager.IsDragging && e.Options.DropDataObject.ContainsFileDropList())
            {
                e.QueryResult = true;
            }
        }

        private void FileListGrid_DropInfo(object sender, DragDropEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Options.Status == DragStatus.DropComplete && !RadDragAndDropManager.IsDragging && e.Options.DropDataObject.ContainsFileDropList())
            {
                var items = ((RadGridView)e.Options.Destination).ItemsSource as IList;
                var droppedFiles = e.Options.DropDataObject.GetFileDropList();

                if (items != null && droppedFiles != null)
                {
                    foreach (var droppedFile in droppedFiles)
                    {
                        items.Add(droppedFile);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

 

In the attached sample I have added RadGridView as well as RadTreeListView, that accepts files from the file system.

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About the Author

Tsvyatko Konov

Tsvyatko Konov was the Lead of UI for Xamarin and UI for UWP team.

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