Question

I’m just curious how I get Windows to use the high quality cursor when dragging and dropping in my WPF application. What I mean by high quality is:

Rather than the regular arrow with a rectangle. I tried using e.Effect but that didn’t do anything… Am I doing something wrong? Or is this just how it is in WPF.

Answer 1

you can’t use the cursor to do this, cursors are MOUSE POINTERS.

want you are looking for are Adorners

here is the doc on this subject:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms743737.aspx

and here is a very complete tuto on how to use drag & drop in WPF:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaimer/archive/2007/07/12/drag-drop-in-wpf-explained-end-to-end.aspx

Edit: just to be precise: to achieve exactly what is shown on your image, you would in this case need an Adorner that follows the mouse + a blank cursor: this.Cursor = Cursors.None;