get the exact location of element on the windows form in c#

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1)I am trying to get the exact location(x and y coordinate) of a listboxitem

Is there any method that can be used to retrive the exact location of item on windows form
please tell me...
I have 2 listboxes which contains items in it
when i drag a item from listbox1 to listbox2 i want to draw line between two that draged and dropped item which i am unable to do
and can be possible if i get the position of dragged and dropped item

Posted 5-Nov-12 19:15pm

shreyaswonder1989

Updated 5-Nov-12 19:46pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Nov-12 1:21am

Why?!

I would say, if you really need its location, there is something wrong in your design. However, maybe if you explain, it turns out to be reasonable.

--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Nov-12 1:24am

Form?! Is it WPF or Forms? The class ListBoxItem is only in WPF, and it does have the position...
--SA

shreyaswonder1989 6-Nov-12 1:47am

it is not a WPA it is a window application form

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Nov-12 1:48am

OK, please, give me exact type of the item.
--SA

shreyaswonder1989 6-Nov-12 1:50am

item will be from listbox which is of type string

shreyaswonder1989 6-Nov-12 1:50am

i know the name of dragged and dropped item

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Member 8647314 · Answer 1 · 2012-11-05T23:42:00

Solution 2

VB

if control id is txtbox
int x =txtbox.Location=Location.X //for x axis
int y=txtbox.Location=Location.Y //for y axis

Posted 5-Nov-12 23:42pm

Member 8647314