How do I perform drag and drop in UWP?

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Hi all,

I'm working on my first project in UWP. I now try drag and drop items but can't get this to work. As UWP has new ways of performing drag and drop it's hard to find some code that does what I am looking for.

I have small canvases inside a larger canvas (they are going to become chess pieces on a chessboard). So I simply want to be able to drag the canvases on top of other small canvases (that is, moving a piece on top of another piece).

I need to do this in codebehind, in the method where I create the canvases (pieces). What I am trying is this:

cnv.CanDrag = true;
cnv.AllowDrop = true;
cnv.DragEnter += new DragEventHandler(cnv_DragEnter);
cnv.Drop += new DragEventHandler(cnv_DragDrop);
cnv.DragStarting += new DragEventHandler(cnv_DragStarting);
cnv.DropCompleted += new DragCompletedEventHandler(cnv_DragCompleted);

(My DragEnter code works, but the eventhandler for DragStarting won't work the way it's written above.)

I need to be able to check whether the player can move the canvas (piece) in question, and what happens when the canvas (piece) gets dropped - is the move allowed and should it remove another piece? I already have the logic from an old application - I just need the correct code for my events.

All the examples I have found so far work on listviews and I have no idea what to write really.

Thanks!

Petter