Drag and drop

Hi !

I try to write my first drag and drop program.

I would like to know what i need to do in order to catch drop of word/excel/ppt files.

Please send me some examples , or any other things that may help.

thanks.

P.S: i meant that i want to catch drop of files (outside) the form into the form.

I want to drap files from directorys like *.doc,*.xls,*.ppt, into any object that can present file imeges (but for now it's not so importent).

For now i just want to catch the file, and add the path of the file to some list (strings).

This is an example for a multiline textbox :-

VB Code:

Private Sub TextBox1_DragDrop(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.DragDrop
    If (e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.FileDrop)) Then
           Dim filename As String() = e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop)
           MessageBox.Show(filename(0))
    End If
End Sub

You must get the filename as a string array in case somebody is dragging multiple files and check thought them.
filename(0) will be a full path to the file so you can open it, analyse it's extension etc.

Oh for dragover effects you can check it with :-

VB Code:

If (e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.FileDrop)) Then
    e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Move
End If

Do i need to enable sometrhing inorder the the D & D thing will work.

If i just add a textbox and your code , nothing happen !!

what i have forgot ?

AllowDrop=true for the textbox or something like that.

I wrote an article a while back which might be of use to you in getting started with drag and drop:-

http://www.creativeprogrammers.com/a...drop-62-1.html