Name
IDataObject.GetData Method
Class
System.Windows.Forms.IDataObject
Syntax
GetData(format [,autoconvert]
)
-
format
Use: Required
Data Type: String or Type object
Field member of the DataFormats class (see later for more information on this) or a Type object representing the format of the data
-
autoconvert
Use: Optional
Data Type: Boolean
True
to convert the data to the specified format
Return value
An Object that contains Clipboard data in the specified format
Description
Retrieves the data of the given format, optionally converting the data format
Rules at a Glance
The
format
argument can be one of the following string values:DataFormats.Bitmap DataFormats.CommaSeparatedValue DataFormats.Dib DataFormats.Dif DataFormats.EnhancedMetafile DataFormats.FileDrop DataFormats.Html DataFormats.Locale DataFormats.MetafilePict DataFormats.OemText DataFormats.Palette DataFormats.PenData DataFormats.Riff DataFormats.Rtf DataFormats.Serializable (a format that encapsulates any type of Windows Forms object) DataFormats.StringFormat DataFormats.SymbolicLink DataFormats.Text DataFormats.Tiff DataFormats.UnicodeText DataFormats.WaveAudio
If
format
is a string, theautoconvert
argument can be supplied in the method call.If the GetData method cannot find data in
format
, it attempts to convert the data toformat
. If the data cannot be converted to theformat
, or if the data was stored withautoconvert
set toFalse
, the method returnsNothing
.
Example
The following example extracts the text that is currently ...
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