WPF 4 DataGrid Row Drag and Drop

I recently had a discussion with a colleague about the capabilities of WPF for application development. We had discussions on the various new features in WPF including the capabilities of the WPF DataGrid control. The WPF DataGrid control has lots of features for data representations and manipulation. One of the nicest features of the DataGrid, is that we can change the column position using Drag-Drop. When my colleague asked me if the Drag-Drop effect is possible for the DataGridRow too, I was clueless. But this question gave me enough motivation to try my hands on implementing a Drag drop with the DataGridRow. This article demonstrates how to do so.

Step 1: Open VS2010 and create a WPF windows application. Name it as ‘WPF40_DataGrid_Row_Drag_Drop’.

Step 2: To this project, add a new class file and name it as ‘DataAccess.cs’. Write the following code in it:  

The above class, defines classes for Employee Entity and the EmployeeCollection, to store Employee records.

Step 3: Open MainWindow.Xaml and define an instance for the ‘EmployeeCollection’ class in Windows.Resource. Also define the DataGrid columns and set the AllowDrop property of the DataGrid to ‘true’. This will enable Drag-Drop operations on the DataGrid control.  

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