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Is there a way to disable the drag&drop functionality for Solution Explorer? Why would you ask? I'm using an wacom pen tablet for quite some years and I love it. But when you use it in solution explorer in combination with a source control like TFS or AnkhSvn it's a disaster when you accidentally move a file into an different directory.

I currently set visual studio to prompt when files are wanted to check out, but when a solution/project file already is checked out then the above problems still exist.

Vishal
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There is a plugin to Visual Studio 2010 that will prompt you drag & drop files in Solution Explorer: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d491911d-97f3-4cf6-87b0-6a2882120acf

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Sadly, turning off the drag and drop function in the Sollution Explorer is not possible.

Edit: The third post (by a Microsoft employee) in this Microsoft Forum thread confirms this.

Edit: Judging from this entry on Microsoft connect it also looks like this is something they have no intention of improving.

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    Even VSCode (another Microsoft IDE) has this feature... Visual Studio needs it too. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1414 – Don Cheadle Jan 03 '18 at 17:54
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I looks like they have finally attempted to enable this functionality in 2017 Community (15.7.5)

Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> General -> "Prompt before moving files to a new location"

I say attempted because I have still had occasions where this setting hasn't displayed the dialog box, so as of V15.7.5 it is a little buggy still.

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