Drag and Drop = EASY!!!

At work I had experience with drag and drop in Silverlight through a 3rd party and it wasn't terrible, but it also was no walk in the park. So when I decided I wanted to add the ability for Tony to drag and drop from one grid to another I thought I was digging my own grave. I googled a bit before I started see what the general consensus was and one site deemed it as convoluted and difficult (enough so to merit him creating a custom class to handle it), another poster complained that his events weren't firing. I thought I would be at this for hours, even with a tutorial in hand.

I didn't use it exactly as the tutorial described, there were some thing in the tutorial which were simply wrong (like how it calculated when to start drag and drop) and things I had no need for, but literally, 5 minutes and had it working. I had thought that the 3rd party set of classes I was using at work were making life easier. The package we're using at work has a lot of flashy little features and is easier to integrate customizations into, but it is WAY easier to just borrow the Microsoft classes included in WPF. Now I have integrated my dual pane view so that Tony can look at a product and drag it onto a Work Order and it will create a new line with the description and part number and everything. Going to implement dragging from the Customers and Inventory grids and then implement dropping in the Purchase Orders as well.