I want to drag an image from a Silverlight UIElement and drop it on the users Desktop or Windows Explorer
I have a Silverlight control containing an image. I want the user to be able to drag the image out of the Silverlight application and drop it anywhere they would be able to drop an image. For example, to the Desktop or to a PowerPoint slide or Word document. Everything that I have read thus far says it cannot be done but I find that hard to believe. I'm very new to Silverlight and RIA development so any help would be much appreciated. Below is the code sample in my WinForm Form but the drag never starts. string[] aString = { imagePath }; DataObject data = new DataObject(DataFormats.FileDrop,