Drag and Drop a Groupwise Email to C# Winform.

Question

Hi all,

I have a need to be able to drag and drop a groupwise email to my winform application and am not having any luck at all.

I am able to get a filename as such but it is only a name, not a path.

Everytime i call

e.Data.GetData("FileContents", true))

or

e.Data.GetData("FileContents", false)) 

or

e.Data.GetData("FileContents"))

i get null returned.

Also, the GetFormats returns something strange and a simple Google search returned nothing. One of the formats was WPOF_DBOBJ_DRN.

If anyone has some insight on this it would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Have a look at the following links (I know, some of them are for Delphi, but you should get the idea):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/896197/drag-and-drop-from-an-email-file-attachment-in-groupwise-to-a-net-application

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Pascal/Delphi/Q_21198933.html

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Pascal/Delphi/Q_23015275.html

Answer 2

I'll take a look at trying that. I've also tried to implement the IStorage interface into an IDataObject interface using unmanaged code and still aren't having any luck. (The Interface is also used to get Outlook messages that are dragged and dropped and works fine.)

That format is most definatly one of the formats i get back from calling e.Data.GetFormats();

I'll take a look at that link. Thanks

Answer 3

WPOF_DBOBJ_DRN looks like WordPerfect Office Format - Database Object. I can't figure out what the DRN stands for though. See if you can open the unreadable file with Word, or WordPerfect if you have it. My guess is that the setup of GroupWise that you are using has WordPerfect as its editor.

Answer 4

Just to add a few more details about this, there is also nothing on the clipboard from the drag and drop. Also took a look at the groupwise editor and word perfect isn't even installed on my pc and is most definatly not the editor.