Copy text into the Windows Clipboard with .NET

04 October 2021

Copy text into the Windows Clipboard with .NET
.NET

To copy text to the clipboard with .NET Framework, usually you have used .NET wrapper of Windows Forms:

System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetText

However, in the new .NET world, where we want to support many operating systems, this wrapper is rather a hindrance. Thank goodness someone took the trouble and created a very nice, stable library: .NET CopyText on GitHub

ClipboardService.SetText("Text to place in clipboard");
string text = ClipboardService.GetText();

and even async is finally supported

await ClipboardService.SetTextAsync("Text to place in clipboard");
string text = await ClipboardService.GetTextAsync();

Autor

Benjamin Abt

Ben is a passionate developer and software architect and especially focused on .NET, cloud and IoT. In his professional he works on high-scalable platforms for IoT and Industry 4.0 focused on the next generation of connected industry based on Azure and .NET. He runs the largest german-speaking C# forum myCSharp.de, is the founder of the Azure UserGroup Stuttgart, a co-organizer of the AzureSaturday, runs his blog, participates in open source projects, speaks at various conferences and user groups and also has a bit free time. He is a Microsoft MVP since 2015 for .NET and Azure.