Drag and Drop from outlook into a Silverlight application

Question

Is there a way to drag and drop an email from Outlook to a Silverlight application? I am able to drag and drop an email from Outlook on to the desktop and then on to the Silverlight Application but it doesn't seem possible to do a direct drag and drop on to the silverlight app. Also, will this be possible in Silverlight 5?

Answer 1

The answer is: no. Silverlight (including Silverlight 5) only supports Drag-drop where the payload type supports FileDrop. Outlook is not generating a drag drop format that supports FileDrop so a drag from Outlook cannot be supported in Silverlight.