Reorder Items by Drag & Drop for Windows Phone

Many people love the start screen of Windows Phone.  It is simple, elegant and responsive.  It allows rearrangement by drag & drop.

It is surprising that reordering items by drag & drop in a Windows Phone app is not straightforward.  Fortunately, Jason Ginchereau from Microsoft has provided a superb implementation of a ListBox with such a feature. It is named ReorderListBox.

ReorderListBox can be used like a regular Windows Phone control in the tool box. The best way to utilize it is to add Ginchereau's code to a library, then the control can be dragged and dropped to an app page. The following files and a folder from Ginchereau's project need to be added to the library:

  • Foldder Themes
  • NegativeValueConverter.cs
  • PullDownToRefreshPanel.cs
  • ReorderListBox.cs
  • ReorderListBoxItem.cs

 

 

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