DragDrop part2

This is similar to the dragdrop we did in this post but instead of dragging listbox items we use datagrid rows
you can see a demo here and source is here

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DataGridRow and Tooltip

We can use Popup to display a tooltip at the row level in the datagrid
Here is sample code

<UserControl x:Class=”slapp1a.Page”
    xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007“
    xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml“
             xmlns:data=”clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data”
             Width=”600″ Height=”600″>
    <UserControl.Resources>
        <DataTemplate x:Key=”dt”>
            <StackPanel Orientation=”Horizontal”>
            <TextBlock Text=”This is a tooltip for the Row with content : “></TextBlock>
                <TextBlock Text=”{Binding}”></TextBlock>
            </StackPanel>
        </DataTemplate>
    </UserControl.Resources>
    <Grid x:Name=”LayoutRoot” Background=”White”>
        <data:DataGrid x:Name=”dataGrid1″
                       Height=”400″
                       Width=”450″
                       Margin=”0,5,0,10″
                       AutoGenerateColumns=”True” />
        [...]

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Storyboard and DataTemplate

This post shows animating Item(s) in datatemplate
<UserControl x:Class=”SilverlightApplication9.Page”
xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007“
xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml“
xmlns:data=”clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data”
Width=”600″ Height=”600″>
<UserControl.Resources>
<Storyboard x:Key=”sbMouseEnter”
Storyboard.TargetProperty=”FontSize”>
<DoubleAnimation From=”10″ To=”12″ Duration=”0:0:1″ />
</Storyboard>
<Storyboard x:Key=”sbMouseLeave”
Storyboard.TargetProperty=”FontSize”>
<DoubleAnimation From=”12″ To=”10″ Duration=”0:0:1″ />
</Storyboard>
<DataTemplate x:Key=”dt”>
<TextBlock Padding=”5,0,5,0″ FontSize=”10″
MouseEnter=”TextBlock_MouseEnter”
MouseLeave=”TextBlock_MouseLeave”
Text=”{Binding FirstName}”/>
</DataTemplate>
</UserControl.Resources>
<Canvas Width=”500″ Height=”500″>
<data:DataGrid x:Name=”dataGrid5″
Height=”100″ Width=”450″ Margin=”0,5,0,10″ >
<data:DataGrid.Columns>
<data:DataGridTemplateColumn Header=”Name”
CellTemplate=”{StaticResource dt}”>
</data:DataGridTemplateColumn>
</data:DataGrid.Columns>
</data:DataGrid>
<ListBox Margin=”150″ Height=”100″ Width=”200″
x:Name=”list1″ ItemTemplate=”{StaticResource dt}”></ListBox>
</Canvas>
</UserControl>
we create 2 storyboards without the target property set, and datatemplate, we use the same datatemplate in datagrid as well [...]

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Drag and Drop in Silverlight

Let’s do some drag & drop of Items between listboxes. The same thing could be used for rearranging items in a control(say listbox).
we can even show what item is getting dragged around
you can see a demo here 
(Note: updated code if you drag and drop between listboxes it should be fine. Error checking is not there, [...]

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GroupBox

Here is a sample template for groupbox in silverlight (mostly from groupbox in WPF)
you can download the source here

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