My aim is to create an application whereby a user can drag a label from a tabbed container into some form of holding area – which had a ruler and a basic grid. I have consulted Google on the subject but the tutorials seem to involve dragging and dropping form components in design view.
The final aim is to then take my holding area and translate that into a .xml file – whereby each dropped element has an entry as follows:
[Dragged Component Name][X Co-ordinate][Y Co-Ordinate][Other Param’s].
Any help with both aspects would be very much appreciated – this is just for a demonstration to a colleague.
I think you need something like this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163871.aspx
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