Well I got your demo code to work. I just hard coded the

styleLibraryPath vairable. I do not have any images associated with a list view item so I can not use the var img = item.Appearance.Image as Bitmap in the GetImageFromItem.

If I remove the reference the img variable in the method and just hard code with and height the text does appear in the drag operation but the text is for away from where the mouse is.

If you can modify the demo not to have any icons at all, make list view control show all its item verticaly instest of cascaded, and just move the selected list view items on the a grag operation centered on mouse during the drag that should do it.

I tried doing the above in my application in the GetImageFromItem but the text was no where to be seen.

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Your code does not even draw a text string.

In the GetImageFromItem method I removed the reference using item.Appearance.Image and tried to just get the method to draw some text so I could see some text being drag and that did not event work. Below is the modified GetImageFromItem method. Did you test your demo code?

 Bitmap GetImageFromItem(UltraListViewItem item)
            {
                var width = 200;
                var height = 20;
                var retImg = new Bitmap(width, height);
                var text = item.Text;
                var f = item.Appearance.HasFontData ? new Font(item.Appearance.FontData.Name, item.Appearance.FontData.SizeInPoints) :
                                                       new Font("Tahuma", 7, FontStyle.Regular);
                Brush b = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);
                var g = Graphics.FromImage(retImg);

                var location = new Point(7, 0);
                g.DrawString(text, f, b, new PointF(0, height));
                f.Dispose();
                b.Dispose();
                g.Dispose();
                return retImg;
            }

Well I found the problem. The item.Appearance.Image  is null in my code. The item is list full of UltraListViewItem items. So do I neve need the line of code below?

var img = item.Appearance.Image as Bitmap;

On the line of code
var img = item.Appearance.Image as Bitmap

Show you be first creating a new Bitmap like in the previous demo and then
some how to some type of copying of item.Appearance.Image  in the new Bitmap.

Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(section.Width, section.Height);

When using you the drag demo code I can not drag in debug mode because the Loader was dectected keep apperning tell me I attempted to run unmanaged code inside a DLL or image initialization function which can caude the application to hang.

All I have to do is really just drag a bitmap with text int it around.  The oringal demo was great and worked find for item view item that had UIElement. Could you just add to the original code and make a second bitmap with the text of the list view items that do not have a UIElement, and combine the two bitmaps into one bitmap.

I tried doing this but the second bitmap sometime would show some tims.