In this VB.Net Tutorial/Code Example I’m going to show you how to copy text to the Windows clipboard and then get text from the Windows clipboard again.
Public Class Clipboard
''' <summary>
''' This method deals with putting text into the clipboard
''' </summary>
''' <param name="textToCopy">The text to be put in the clipboard</param>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Public Shared Sub copyToClipboard(ByVal textToCopy As String)
System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetDataObject(textToCopy, True)
End Sub
''' <summary>
''' This method deals with getting text from the clipboard
''' </summary>
''' <returns>The text that is in the clipboard</returns>
''' <remarks>If there is no text in the clipboard then a zero length string is returned</remarks>
Public Shared Function getTextFromClipboard() As String
Dim rtn As String = ""
If (System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.GetDataObject().GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text)) Then
rtn = System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.GetDataObject().GetData(DataFormats.Text).ToString()
End If
Return rtn
End Function
End Class
