Hi Tom,

I performed a test based on your description, but didn't reproduce the
problem. In my test, the ItemDrag event of the ListView isn't fired when I
select one item by clicking it. Only when I click down the mouse on an
ListViewItem and move, the ItemDrag event is fired.

The following is the walkthough of my test.
1. Create a WinForm application project.
2. Add a ListView on the Form1 and add some items into the ListView.
3. Set the AllowDrop property of the ListView to true and handle the
ItemDrag, ItemEnter and ItemDrop events of the ListView.  The following is
the code in the Form1.

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
       public Form1()
       {
           InitializeComponent();
           this.listView1.AllowDrop = true;          
           this.listView1.ItemDrag += new
ItemDragEventHandler(listView1_ItemDrag);
           this.listView1.DragEnter += new
DragEventHandler(listView1_DragEnter);
           this.listView1.DragDrop += new
DragEventHandler(listView1_DragDrop);
       }
       void listView1_DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
       {
           ListViewItem item = e.Data.GetData(typeof(ListViewItem)) as
ListViewItem;
           if (item != null)
           {
               Point pt = this.listView1.PointToClient(new Point(e.X,
e.Y));
               ListViewItem hoveritem = this.listView1.GetItemAt(pt.X,
pt.Y);
               if (hoveritem != null)
               {
                   hoveritem.Text = item.Text;
               }
           }
       }

       void listView1_DragEnter(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
       {
           if (e.Data.GetDataPresent(typeof(ListViewItem)))
           {
               e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Copy;
           }
       }
       void listView1_ItemDrag(object sender, ItemDragEventArgs e)
       {        
           this.listView1.DoDragDrop(this.listView1.SelectedItems[0],
DragDropEffects.All);
       }
}

If the problem is still not solved, could you please send me a sample
project that could just reproduce the problem? To get my actual email
address, remove 'online' from my displayed email address.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
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