Robust, Reusable Drag-and-Drop Behavior in Silverlight
By manipulating an element's RenderTransform with attached behaviors, you can greatly increase the overall robustness and reusability of any drag-and-drop implementation in Silverlight.
by Charlie Robbins
May 27, 2009
s the richness of Internet applications continues to grow through technologies such as Silverlight, AJAX, and Flash, the adoption of common desktop user interface (UI) paradigms within these applications continues to increase. The most obvious paradigm perhaps is drag-and-drop behavior.
Although simple drag-and-drop behavior is available through some Silverlight controls, Silverlight's overall implementation lacks some of the finer points of the behavior available in WPF. However, by manipulating an element's RenderTransform with attached behaviors, you can greatly increase the overall robustness and reusability of any drag-and-drop implementation.
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s the richness of Internet applications continues to grow through technologies such as Silverlight, AJAX, and Flash, the adoption of common desktop user interface (UI) paradigms within these applications continues to increase. The most obvious paradigm perhaps is drag-and-drop behavior.
