Get Silverlight drag / drop return index

Well, that’s pretty ugly, but I didn’t find another way, not myself, and also did not search the net for answers. There was another deadline at Microsoft, which prevented the inclusion of fairly obvious functionality ...

Basically, the method below does everything manually, getting the drag location and checking it for list items that will be used as index links.

private void ListBoxDragDropTarget_Drop(object sender, Microsoft.Windows.DragEventArgs e)
{
    // only valid for copying
    if (e.Effects.HasFlag(DragDropEffects.Copy))
    {
        SelectionCollection selections = ((ItemDragEventArgs)e.Data.GetData("System.Windows.Controls.ItemDragEventArgs")).Data as SelectionCollection;
        int? index = null;

        if (selections != null)
        {
            Point p1 = e.GetPosition(this.LayoutRoot); // get drop position relative to layout root
            var elements = VisualTreeHelper.FindElementsInHostCoordinates(p1, this.LayoutRoot); // get ui elements at drop location

            foreach (var dataItem in this.lbxConfiguration.Items) // iteration over data items
            {
                // get listbox item from data item
                ListBoxItem lbxItem = this.lbxConfiguration.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(dataItem) as ListBoxItem;

                // find listbox item that contains drop location
                if (elements.Contains(lbxItem))
                {
                    Point p2 = e.GetPosition(lbxItem); // get drop position relative to listbox item
                    index = this.lbxConfiguration.Items.IndexOf(dataItem); // new item will be inserted immediately before listbox item
                    if (p2.Y > lbxItem.ActualHeight / 2)
                        index += 1; // new item will be inserted after listbox item (drop location was in bottom half of listbox item)

                    break;
                }
            }

            if (index != null)
            {
                foreach (var selection in selections)
                {
                    // adding a new item to the listbox - adjust this to your model
                    (lbxConfiguration.ItemsSource as IList<ViewItem>).Insert((int)index, (selection.Item as ViewItem).Clone());
                }
            }
        }
    }
}