Make WPF window draggable, no matter what element is clicked

Question

My question is 2 fold, and I am hoping there are easier solutions to both provided by WPF rather than the standard solutions from WinForms (which Christophe

Answer 1

It is possible to drag & drop a form by clicking anywhere on the form, not just the title bar. This is handy if you have a borderless form.

This article on CodeProject demonstrates one possible solution to implement this:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/DraggableForm.aspx

Basically a descendant of the Form type is created in which the mouse down, up and move events are handled.

• Mouse down: remember position
• Mouse move: store new location
• Mouse up: position form to new location

And here's a similar solution explained in a video tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJlY9aX73Vs

I would not allow dragging the form when a user clicks upon a control in said form. Users epexct different results when they click on different controls. When my form suddenly starts moving because I clicked a listbox, button, label...etc. that would be confusing.