Drag and drop to Desktop / Explorer

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DragDrop.DoDragDrop can do this as long as you pass it an appropriate DataObject.

First copy the files somewhere. You can use System.IO.Path.GetTempPath() if you don’t have anywhere better.

Next create a string array containing the full paths to the files and do the following:

string[] paths = ...;
DragDrop.DoDragDrop(this, new DataObject(DataFormats.FileDrop, paths),
                    DragDropEffects.Copy);

It is actually possible to do this without pre-copying the files but that gets into some complicated IDataObject interactions, so unless your files are potentially very large and aren’t already in the filesystem I would try this method first.

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