title: Free Windows Forms Components Similar to jQuery UI Draggables
body: <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p>
  
  <p>So, I ended up making my own <em>basic</em> solution to this problem, and it can be found in my own answer to the question below. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1579412/windows-forms-components-similar-to-jquery-ui-draggables/1591964#1591964">Or, here's a link.</a></p>
  
  <p><strong>Original Post</strong></p>
  
  <p>I'm doing some UI programming for a small .NET application. The application has some collections of items that need to be displayed in a grid sort of format (X columns by Y rows) and the grid elements need to be able to get dragged around to different grid locations, and possibly out of the grid all together.</p>
  
  <p>The most comparable sort of UI design elements I can think of are the <a href="http://jqueryui.com/demos/draggable/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">jQueryUI Draggables</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Do I have to roll my own or are there components people have already written to act like this? Even better, are there any <em>free</em> components? Or is there an easy way to do this that I just don't know about (don't do a lot of .NET UI programming..)</p>
  
  <p>Also these "grid items" need to be able to include windows form components. The <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2009/08/12/datarepeater-control-for-windows-forms.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">DataRepeater</a> control is <em>close</em> to what I need, except it only supports horizontal or vertical alignments, not grids of items.</p>
  
  <p>Here's a visual example of what I'm looking for:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hhtao.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="awesome grid layout"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hhtao.png" alt="Awesome Grid Layout UI" title="awesome grid layout"></a>
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  <p>I tried to stick with a halloween theme here.</p>