How to start a drag+drop action?

Question

I know that it is possible to drag items from ListView or GridView and then drop them somewhere. I would like to be able to also drag items from other sources, so they take part in the same drag+drop system. Is that possible with WinRT? In WinForms and WPF this is not a problem, but I could not find a way to start a drag+drop action in WinRT.

Answer 1

You can only drag/drop objects within the same app.  For inter-app processing, you'll want to use the share contract.  Do you have a specific scenario in mind?

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