Moving shapes in Silverlight

Having written the same code too many times, I thought I better start making life more easy for myself. In Silverlight you often want to change the location of a shape (or more correctly a DependancyObject)

The code I kept writing was move the location of a shape, such as in drag-n-drop.

I've written this as an Extension method, giving:

public static class XamlExtensions
{
  public static void PointSet(this DependencyObject shape, Point newLocation)
  {
    shape.SetValue(Canvas.LeftProperty, newLocation.X);
    shape.SetValue(Canvas.TopProperty, newLocation.Y);
  }
}

which allows:

shape.PointSet(cursorPoint);

rather than

PointSet(shape, cursorPoint);