How to Drag listview items and drop either in Windows explorer or treeview control.

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Hi i need help on drag drop.
My scenario is i have listview with different type of files like TXT, doc, img etc.
I need to implement drag and drop functionality on my listview. Like user can drag item from listview and he can drop it either in windows explorer or treeview control on the application.
When the item is dropped to windows explorer then that file should be downloaded. If user drop that file to treeview then that file is moved to the selected node of the treeview.
My problem is, in item drag event when the user tries to drop the file on treeview then data should se sent as listview item in DoDragDrop method, and when user drops to the explorer then i am creating file in temp folder and then sending the path to DoDragDrop Method.
So how can i do this task alternatively.

Posted 5-Mar-14 22:30pm

sagar_253

Updated 6-Mar-14 0:39am

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BillWoodruff 6-Mar-14 7:56am

Is this ASP.NET ? Windows Forms ?

I suggest you show your code for the various Drag/Drop Events.

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Why your are creating temporary files for this simple task instead of this you can try file copying method as follows.

C#

System.IO.File.Copy("SourcePath","DestinationPath");

Thanks & Regards
Anand. G

Posted 7-Mar-14 7:47am

Anand Gunasekaran

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sagar_253 14-Mar-14 2:50am

Thanks for the reply, but that is not my problem,
Issue is sending different data object to DoDragMethod at runtime.
So is there any alternative for doing drag and drop.

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sagar_253 · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-01T01:41:00

Solution 3

Found solution here in this link.
Nice article

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/delay/archive/2009/10/26/creating-something-from-nothing-developer-friendly-virtual-file-implementation-for-net.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage[^]

Posted 1-Apr-14 1:41am

sagar_253