I have a MS TreeView that I have enabled OLEDragnDrop. It works great but there is a small problem with selection of the dragged node.

If a user left clicks a node to select it, then drags it, it works fine but if the the user simply clicks and drags, the selection highlight remains on the previously selected node instead of the dragged node. Unfortunately, I need the key value from the dragged node to do a DB thing in the background so I need the drag operation to first perform a selection.

Anyone help?

Use the MouseDown event to select the item under the mouse (use the HitTest method). A better what to do this is to start a drag only if the item under the mouse is the selected item.

Marco

Thanks marco, I found the HitTest method later yesterday and incoporated it. Works great. I will have a look at your suggestion regarding not doing the drag unless the mouse is over the selected item.