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Drag & Drop framework
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I just finished a project that required heavy drag and drop functionality.  Basically, the task was to build a document editor composed of a large number of draggable elements.

Because I am a huge Infragistics fan, I tried...  I mean *really tried* to use the Infragistics Drag & Drop Framework as the foundation of it.  But it was difficult.  

My list of drag objects is constantly changing based on user filters, and the list of drop objects is constantly changing based on document paging.  This was very difficult to manage.  I couldn't figure out how to do garbage collection when the list changed, and I couldn't figure out an efficient way to use jQuery to pass in a list of objects.

Also, no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the user interface element that follows the mouse during a drag to represent right.

Finally, I gave up, and started looking for other solutions.  I stumbled onto the provider that is part of jQuery UI.  Everything was intuitive, and I accomplished in a couple of hours what I had struggled with using Infragistics for several days.

I want your product to be top tier, and I know that customer feedback can be valuable, and I hope that this feedback will give you some direction to help improve your product.

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    Hello Rob, 

    Thanks for your feedback and I hope you continue to be a huge fan of Infragistics. Sorry to hear you had trouble using the drag and drop framework APIs and were not able to use it to accomplish your task. The team has been made aware of your comments and we are constantly trying to make all our APIs easy to use and intuitive for developers when developing their application cases.

    I manage the Web products at Infragistics, and if you have any other feedback or suggestions, feel free to reach out to me directly at murtazaa@infragistics.com

    Best Regards, 

    Taz. 

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