Application #40. Use Drag-and-Drop
Previous versions of Visual Basic had two different and incompatible methods of adding drag-and-drop functionality to applications. The first method was known as standard drag-and-drop, and it was designed to support drag-and-drop operations between controls within a single application. While simple to code, standard drag-and-drop didn’t work across multiple applications. The second method was known as OLE drag-and-drop. OLE drag-and-drop was slightly more complicated, but it worked across multiple applications. Unfortunately, OLE drag-and-drop was incompatible with standard drag-and-drop.
Visual Basic .NET simplifies all of this by settling on a single, standard way of performing drag-and-drop operations that ...
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