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What a drag: You can be a drag in managed code, too

November 13, 2009 Nov 13, 2009 11/13/09
Raymond Chen
David Anson digests my earlier series on virtual drag/drop and translates it into managed code. His example of dragging his entire RSS feed is an excellent illustration of dragging dynamically-generated virtual content. (I didn't use an example like that because the purpose of the What a drag series was to get something done in the least ...

You can drag multiple virtual objects, you know

March 31, 2008 Mar 31, 2008 03/31/08
Raymond Chen
A customer wanted to know how they could find out the directory that the user dropped a file onto. As we already noted, users can drop files onto things other than directories, so the question itself comes with incorrect hidden assumptions. This is another one of those cases where you have to ask the customer, "What are you really trying to ...