C# – How to Drag item from C# form and drop on other application

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I want to know that how can we drag item from treeview in C# and drop in other(autocad) application. That item is basically the autocad file .dwg.

I have written some code:

private void treeView1_ItemDrag(object sender, ItemDragEventArgs e)
{     

     TreeNode n = (TreeNode)e.Item;
     this.treeView1.DoDragDrop(AcadObj, DragDropEffects.Copy);

}

AcadObj is an autocad object.

This event is working fine but the event DragDrop is not firing, even when i drag on autocad the mouse pointer gives me plus sign (that the file is accepted here). My DragDrop event is :

private void treeview1_DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e){

       MessageBox.Show("It works");
}

The above event is not working and not showing me MessageBox. I have implemented only these two events.

Please helpe me and guide me how can i do this

Best Answer

The problem is because of memory space. You see, .NET stores its memory inside the CLR. This means , you cannot drag drop anything from .NET into another application running in a different memory space using the .NET dragdrop.

You have to use an interprocess drag-drop.

WINOLEAPI DoDragDrop( 
  IDataObject * pDataObject,  //Pointer to the data object
  IDropSource * pDropSource,  //Pointer to the source
  DWORD dwOKEffect,           //Effects allowed by the source
  DWORD * pdwEffect           //Pointer to effects on the source
);

If you wrap the object you want to drag drop within your own implementation of IDataObject, you can drag drop into any application.

I would post an example, but i cant find one in my source which is "clean" enough to post as an example. Google around. Look for drag-drop implementations using C++ COM. Use that instead of the .NET built in drag drop.

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Some sample code:

  public partial class Form1 : Form {
    public Form1() {
      InitializeComponent();
      this.AllowDrop = true;
      this.DragEnter += new DragEventHandler(Form1_DragEnter);
      this.DragDrop += new DragEventHandler(Form1_DragDrop);
    }

    void Form1_DragEnter(object sender, DragEventArgs e) {
      if (e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.FileDrop)) e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Copy;
    }

    void Form1_DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e) {
      string[] files = (string[])e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop);
      foreach (string file in files) Console.WriteLine(file);
    }
  }

C# – How to create an Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) file in C# without installing Microsoft Office

You can use a library called ExcelLibrary. It's a free, open source library posted on Google Code:

ExcelLibrary

This looks to be a port of the PHP ExcelWriter that you mentioned above. It will not write to the new .xlsx format yet, but they are working on adding that functionality in.

It's very simple, small and easy to use. Plus it has a DataSetHelper that lets you use DataSets and DataTables to easily work with Excel data.

ExcelLibrary seems to still only work for the older Excel format (.xls files), but may be adding support in the future for newer 2007/2010 formats.

You can also use EPPlus, which works only for Excel 2007/2010 format files (.xlsx files). There's also NPOI which works with both.

There are a few known bugs with each library as noted in the comments. In all, EPPlus seems to be the best choice as time goes on. It seems to be more actively updated and documented as well.

Also, as noted by @АртёмЦарионов below, EPPlus has support for Pivot Tables and ExcelLibrary may have some support (Pivot table issue in ExcelLibrary)

Here are a couple links for quick reference:
ExcelLibrary - GNU Lesser GPL
EPPlus - GNU (LGPL) - No longer maintained
EPPlus 5 - Polyform Noncommercial - Starting May 2020
NPOI - Apache License

Here some example code for ExcelLibrary:

Here is an example taking data from a database and creating a workbook from it. Note that the ExcelLibrary code is the single line at the bottom:

//Create the data set and table
DataSet ds = new DataSet("New_DataSet");
DataTable dt = new DataTable("New_DataTable");

//Set the locale for each
ds.Locale = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
dt.Locale = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;

//Open a DB connection (in this example with OleDB)
OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(dbConnectionString);
con.Open();

//Create a query and fill the data table with the data from the DB
string sql = "SELECT Whatever FROM MyDBTable;";
OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(sql, con);
OleDbDataAdapter adptr = new OleDbDataAdapter();

adptr.SelectCommand = cmd;
adptr.Fill(dt);
con.Close();

//Add the table to the data set
ds.Tables.Add(dt);

//Here's the easy part. Create the Excel worksheet from the data set
ExcelLibrary.DataSetHelper.CreateWorkbook("MyExcelFile.xls", ds);

Creating the Excel file is as easy as that. You can also manually create Excel files, but the above functionality is what really impressed me.

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