The clipboard is a set of functions and messages that can be used to transfer data between different windows applications. This is possible since all applications have access to it. We can manipulate data from the Windows clipboard through the .NET framework.
The code sample below shows how to access an image from the clipboard and save it to a file.
We can use the System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard class, which provides methods to save data to the system clipboard and retrieve data from it.
All methods of this class are static, so we don’t have to create an instance of it and everybody has serialized access to it.
The GetDataObject() method is the method that gets all the data from the clipboard.
The other method GetDataPresent()
Given below is the code.
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'The IDataInterface is used to get the Data
'from the clipboard since it can be in any format
Dim oData As IDataObject
Dim oImg As Image
'The GetDataObject() method is used to get the data
'from the clipboard
If Not IsNothing(Clipboard.GetDataObject) Then
oData = Clipboard.GetDataObject()
'The GetDataPresent() method is used to check for
'a particular format of Data
If oData.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Bitmap) Then
oImg = oData.GetData(DataFormats.Bitmap, True)
oImg.Save("myImage.gif",System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif)
Else
MessageBox.Show("Clipboard data Not an Image")
End If
Else
MessageBox.Show("Clipboard has No Data")
End If
Hope this piece of code helps. Happy Coding !!
