Detect Drag'n'Drop file in WPF?

Question

Is it possible to have a WPF window/element detect the drag'n'dropping of a file from windows explorer in C# .Net 3.5? I've found solutions for WinForms, but none for WPF.

Answer 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/316900/dragndrop-one-or-more-mails-from-outlook-to-c-wpf-application

Answer 2

Turns out I couldn't drop onto my TextBox for some reason, but dropping onto buttons works fine. Got it working by adding 'AllowDrop="True"' to my window and adding drop event handler to button consisting of:

private void btnFindType_Drop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.Data is System.Windows.DataObject &&
    ((System.Windows.DataObject)e.Data).ContainsFileDropList())
  {
    foreach (string filePath in ((System.Windows.DataObject)e.Data).GetFileDropList())
    {
      // Processing here
    }
  }            
}

Answer 3

Unfortunately, TextBox, RichTextBox, and FlowDocument viewers always mark drag-and-drop events as handled, which prevents them from bubbling up to your handlers. You can restore drag-and-drop events being intercepted by these controls by force-handling the drag-and-drop events (use UIElement.AddHandler and set handledEventsToo to true) and setting e.Handled to false in your handler.

Answer 4

Hi,

I noticed that drag&drop in WPF is not as easy as it could be. So I wrote a short article about this topic: http://www.wpftutorial.net/DragAndDrop.html