Working with the Clipboard
The My.Computer.Clipboard property provides members for working with the system clipboard. Table 19.1 summarizes the members.
TABLE 19.1 My.Computer.Clipboard Members
The following code shows how you can clear the clipboard and then copy some text; in the end the code checks if some text is available and, if so, returns the text:
My.Computer.Clipboard.Clear()My.Computer.Clipboard.SetText("This is some text")If My.Computer.Clipboard.ContainsText Then Console.WriteLine(My.Computer.Clipboard.GetText)End If
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