Hi!
I am thinking of using Telerik's Silverlight-controls to implement Sharepoint webparts.
One common scenario will be to allow users to drag-and-drop between two webparts. Since the most natural way would be to implement each webpart as a separate Silverlight-application, my question is: Is it possible to implement drag-and-drop between two different Silverlight-applications? I've seen lots of examples of drag-and-drop, but only when the controls live in the same app.
Another way to implement the webparts would be to have one single application, which would be full-screen, but that seems like a rather unnatural way to do it. Any thoughts about this would be highly appreaciated.
Thanks
/Fredrik
I am thinking of using Telerik's Silverlight-controls to implement Sharepoint webparts.
One common scenario will be to allow users to drag-and-drop between two webparts. Since the most natural way would be to implement each webpart as a separate Silverlight-application, my question is: Is it possible to implement drag-and-drop between two different Silverlight-applications? I've seen lots of examples of drag-and-drop, but only when the controls live in the same app.
Another way to implement the webparts would be to have one single application, which would be full-screen, but that seems like a rather unnatural way to do it. Any thoughts about this would be highly appreaciated.
Thanks
/Fredrik
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Hi Fredrik,
There is no easy way to implement DragDrop between Silverlight applications and I am not sure if there is an acceptable solution at all.
On solution may involve passing data and continuing mouse events between applications. This will require a lot of hacking around the local connection (directly between plugins) and the Html bridge (+JavaScript). This may be very fragile and hard to test and maintain.
If you go for the single Silverlight application, then you will still have problems with the mouse events because any Html overlay will capture them. Also here you will not be able to have popups above the Html content, so the DragCue, any menus and DropDowns would not work as expected.
In short, even if you manage to implement a kind of drag-drop between Silverlight applications then this will possibly be "hacky" and fragile. Unfortunately I cannot think of any solution that I can recommend.
Sincerely yours,
Miroslav
the Telerik team
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There is no easy way to implement DragDrop between Silverlight applications and I am not sure if there is an acceptable solution at all.
On solution may involve passing data and continuing mouse events between applications. This will require a lot of hacking around the local connection (directly between plugins) and the Html bridge (+JavaScript). This may be very fragile and hard to test and maintain.
If you go for the single Silverlight application, then you will still have problems with the mouse events because any Html overlay will capture them. Also here you will not be able to have popups above the Html content, so the DragCue, any menus and DropDowns would not work as expected.
In short, even if you manage to implement a kind of drag-drop between Silverlight applications then this will possibly be "hacky" and fragile. Unfortunately I cannot think of any solution that I can recommend.
Sincerely yours,
Miroslav
the Telerik team
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