Quote Originally Posted by rbettes View Post
I also tried to bring the icons across as well and tried another listView - this didnt work.
What are the problems you encounter? As you can see from the event handlers I posted above, you have access to the entire ListViewItem object in the drop target. The icon property is a simple integral index into the image list. If both controls refer to the same image list, or at least image lists that have matching icons set up at the respective indices, it should be no big deal. I didn't try that myself yet, though.

Did you get the item tool tips working? I would be interested in how you did this.

What my aim is to have a design sheet where the selected item is then dropped to the place as required in the schematic drawing .
I'm not sure whether a list view is the right control for that purpose. At least you would have to derive a class from ListView and do some drawing yourself. But it might be better do implement the entire control more or less yourself, as that might provide a better fitting structure to map to the model you're working with.