Archive for June, 2008

Drag & Drop in Silverlight 2

Published on June 30th, 2008.

In some occasions you will need to drag & drop items between different objects in your Silverlight application. Although in Windows Forms is very easy to achieve this goal (because you have the events DragEnter, DragDrop), in Silverlight you can do the same with little tricks. In this example I will show you how to do drag & drop over a canvas.

We are going to create a project, called Freedom in the Sky. We have a custom control, called Bird, which we want to drag & drop over a canvas. Here is our custom control.

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Published on June 3rd, 2008.

Beta 2 is coming this week! Pete Brown wrote a short overview of what will this beta contain. Here it is.

  • Cross-domain changes to Sockets
  • WCF Duplex Communications
  • TextWrapping in textbox
  • TabControl
  • Updates to Improve WPF Compatibility

Along with Silverlight 2 Beta 2, you’ll find a new preview of Expression Blend 2.5 and a new version of Deep Zoom Composer.

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