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C#

Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
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Posted by Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points

Windows.Forms Form1 allowdrop property is true, Why can't I drag a file into the form now?

I'm trying to make a window.from application where I can drag image files into the picture boxes inside the form and than crop-format the images to a uniform size for display on a page or as thumbnail displays.

Im getting stopped here right at the beginning because i'm not able to drag anything into the form. in the IDE design window, set the Form1 Allowdrop property to true, but when I run the program, It does still does not allow me to drag files in...... when dragging the files in I the cursor changes to 'no' (as in the no smoking sign)

Question) Why is the form still behaving like AllowDrop is false Question) Why is there no AllowDrop property on the PictureBox class?

Thanks

1 Answer

Jeremy McLain
STAFF
Jeremy McLain
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jeremy McLain
Jeremy McLain
Treehouse Guest Teacher

We don't teach Windows Forms development at Treehouse yet. Questions about specific applications and frameworks like this are better asked on sites such as StackOverflow. You'll have better luck getting an answers to your questions there. You'll have better luck if you post the relevant code to demonstrate the problem.