Clipboard class

Gets and sets information from the clipboard object.

Syntax

var clipboard = Windows.ApplicationModel.DataTransfer.Clipboard;

Attributes

DualApiPartitionAttribute()

MarshalingBehaviorAttribute(Standard)

StaticAttribute(Windows.ApplicationModel.DataTransfer.IClipboardStatics, NTDDI_WIN8)

VersionAttribute(NTDDI_WIN8)

Members

The Clipboard class has these types of members:

• Events
• Methods

Events

The Clipboard class has these events.

Methods

The Clipboard class has these methods. With C#, Visual Basic, and C++, it also inherits methods from the Object class.

Remarks

Because the Clipboard class is a static class, you don't need to create an instance of it to access its methods.

Note  : This class is not agile, which means that you need to consider its threading model and marshaling behavior. For more info, see Threading and Marshaling (C++/CX) and Using Windows Runtime objects in a multithreaded environment (.NET).

Examples

The following sample shows how to track changes to the Clipboard. If the Clipboard has text, the code adds the text to an HTML page.

Windows.ApplicationModel.DataTransfer.Clipboard.addEventListener("contentchanged", function (event) {
    var dataPackageView = Windows.ApplicationModel.DataTransfer.Clipboard.getContent();
    if (dataPackageView.contains(Windows.ApplicationModel.DataTransfer.StandardDataFormats.text)) {
        dataPackageView.getTextAsync().then(function (text) {
            // To output the text from this example, you need an HTML element
            // with an id of "output".
            document.getElementById("output").innerText = "Clipboard now contains: " + text;
        });
    }
});

Requirements

Build date: 2/25/2013