How to make a movable control in c#? - c#

How to make a movable control in c#?
Two circles with a line joining b/w them.
if we move one circle in any direction the other circle remains fixed but the line changes its position according to the first circle.
i want the idea .....pls help me if u have?

You are not telling us if this is a Winform application, WPF or Silverlight.
To me it sounds like WPF could be the right technology for this.
You could use the shape objects to draw circles and lines.
Link to MSDN documentation

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I think you can get your answer from this example.
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms743737.aspx?ppud=4

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