Drag and Drop in 30 Seconds

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

If this doesn’t convince you that it is worthwhile to learn Blend and Behaviors…

  1. Open a new phone project in Blend and drag a shape onto the artboard (e.g., an ellipse).
  2. Click on Assets –> Behaviors and drag  MouseDragElementBehavior onto your shape
  3. There is no step 3.  Run the program.

Note that if you try this with a  Button or other control it won’t work.  But if you put that control inside a Border and then drag MouseDragElementBehavior onto the border, you can then drag the border.

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About Jesse Liberty

** Note ** Jesse is currently looking for a new position. You can learn more about him at https://jesseliberty.bio Thank you. Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET, is now available wherever you buy your books. Liberty was a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer for various corporations, a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a 13 year Microsoft MVP.
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3 Responses to Drag and Drop in 30 Seconds

  3. Moumen's avatar Moumen says:
    September 24, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    Cool. But that’s just the “Drag” part. How about the “Drop”? 😉

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