The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a framework for graphical user interfaces. It has a powerful component called DataGrid, which is pretty useful for letting the user interact with data loaded from a database:
The design is flexible and the cells of this grid can be filled with other elements like ComboBoxes, Buttons or Images in a straight forward way. Here is an example picture with a ComboBox:
This post is about handling Drag & Drop for the rows of a DataGrid with occasional ComboBox-columns. The approach presented here will not work if all the columns are ComboBoxes, since the rows will be draggable only in all non-ComboBox-columns.
The problem I had with the drag and drop solutions I found on the web was that they prevented the ComboBoxes from reacting correctly to mouse events. So the limited but quite simple solution I settled for lets the cells handle the mouse events.
Accourding to the documentation the first thing you have to do is:
Identify the start of a drag event
As mentioned above among the various choices which event of which element should be used to decide that a drag started, the MouseMove of the text-cells of my DataGrid turned out to be the best choice by far:
In the so called code-behind, the obvious move is to say, that if the user has the left button pressed while moving the mouse, she wants to start a drag:
And the DataRowView that is being dragged may be found with the following method:
Dropping
The “Drop” part is about as straight forward as I expected:
And the handler can extract the row we gave above from the event arguments:
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