Disable drag&drop in solution explorer

Question

Is there a way to disable the drag&drop functionality for Solution Explorer? Why would you ask? I'm using an wacom pen tablet for quite some years and I love it. But when you use it in solution explorer in combination with a source control like TFS or AnkhSvn it's a disaster when you accidentally move a file into an different directory.

I currently set visual studio to prompt when files are wanted to check out, but when a solution/project file already is checked out then the above problems still exist.

Answer 1

Sadly, turning off the drag and drop function in the Sollution Explorer is not possible.

Edit: The third post (by a Microsoft employee) in this Microsoft Forum thread confirms this.

Edit: Judging from this entry on Microsoft connect it also looks like this is something they have no intention of improving.

Answer 2

I just realized, with additional testing, the problem is on the IFRAME element inside the window, which has tinymce embeded. I know, IFRAME might be bad form. Any way to disable redirect on drag to IFRAME element?

Answer 3

I just found this searching for a solution to the same problem. I use a regular mouse, but occasionally I miss the scroll bar in the solution explorer and KAPOW! Some folder has moved and I have no idea what it was or where it went. Infuriating!

Answer 4

There must be a solution for this stupid problem. I have been sitting here for hours now and trying to restore my solution just because I accidently moved some file to some other folders

Answer 5

There is a plugin to Visual Studio 2010 that will prompt you drag & drop files in Solution Explorer: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d491911d-97f3-4cf6-87b0-6a2882120acf

Answer 6

Same problem to me.

I never use the drag and drop. I don't need this.

Cut And Past if I move something is safer.

That's stupid to cannot disable the drag and drop. And that is more stupid to cannot undo moves (control+z) as exeplorer.exe do.