Drag and Drop in MVVM was broken when I upgraded contols

[Michael Hilker]

I have an MVVM project with Several RadGridViews inside of a RadTabControl and a RadTabControl containing Listboxes which are defined in an datatemplate.
I had Drag and Drop working fine when using version 2011.2.712.40
However, when I upgraded to the current release the drag and drop functionality does not work.

I found the following thread (see below) and downloaded the last example contained within, sure enough it has the same problem...
if you run the example with the version contained in the lib folder Drag and Drop works fine, then if you upgrade the controls to the current  version, Drag and Drop no longer functions.

http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/wpf/draganddrop/drag-drop-related-problem-in-mvvm.aspx

What has changed that would impact Drag and Drop, and how can I correct it?

[Nick]

Hi Michael,

The reason for this is that there were some changes made in the RadTreeView, related to it's internal drag & drop behavior. You will have to subscribe the the ItemCreated event and set the Allow Drag property there. 

protected override void OnAttached()
        {
            base.OnAttached();

            RadDragAndDropManager.AddDragQueryHandler(this.AssociatedObject, OnDragQuery);
            RadDragAndDropManager.AddDragInfoHandler(this.AssociatedObject, OnDragInfo);

            RadDragAndDropManager.AddDropQueryHandler(this.AssociatedObject, OnDropQuery);
            RadDragAndDropManager.AddDropInfoHandler(this.AssociatedObject, OnDropInfo);

            if (this.AssociatedObject is RadTreeView)
            {
                (this.AssociatedObject as RadTreeView).ItemPrepared += new EventHandler<RadTreeViewItemPreparedEventArgs>(CommandDragDropBehavior_ItemPrepared);
            }
        }

        void CommandDragDropBehavior_ItemPrepared(object sender, RadTreeViewItemPreparedEventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                RadDragAndDropManager.SetAllowDrag(e.PreparedItem, true);
                RadDragAndDropManager.SetAllowDrop(e.PreparedItem, true);
            }
            catch
            {
            }
        }

Hope this helps!  Regards,
Nik
the Telerik team

[Michael Hilker]

Is there an example that includes this for MVVM?  Or could you update the example in the attached thread so I can be sure I'm implementing it correctly.

[Vlad]

Hello,

 We believe that the example is already MVVM ready. Have you tried our code? Do you see anything wrong?

Kind regards,
Vlad
the Telerik team

[Michael Hilker]

OK that fixes the issue if the control is a RadTreeView as in the example.  However, I'm using RadListBox and RadGridView, how do I address that.  I applied your suggestion to the example and indeed that fixed the problem, I then changed the RadTreeView to a RadListBox and again it does not allow me to Drag and Drop.

[Vlad]

Hi,

You should change the code when you use different components - as you can see there is a cast in the code for RadTreeView. 

Regards,
Vlad
the Telerik team

[Michael Hilker]

Is this the line you're refering to?

(this.AssociatedObject as RadTreeView).ItemPrepared += new EventHandler<RadTreeViewItemPreparedEventArgs>(CommandDragDropBehavior_ItemPrepared);                 

It appears as though neither RadGridView Nor RadListBox have the ItemPrepared Event.  Am I missing something?

[Vlad]

Hello,

This was just an example. The idea is that you have you change the code to fit your scenario.

Greetings,
Vlad
the Telerik team