Clipboard Data Source in C#

Question

I have been searching and searching and searching for some code that will allow me to do this but i have gotten nothing. Lets say i copied a file, or image file. It is on my clipboard. How do i get the name of the file or image file i have copied? I already know the text copied or the image, but i need the name of the file. e.g: image.png

Did you search these forums? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3546016/how-to-copy-data-to-clipboard-in-c-sharp — poco, Jul 20 '12 at 03:53

danish · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-20T04:07:32.507

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Are you looking for this method?

Clipboard.GetFileDropList()

Edit:

StringCollection fileNameCollection = Clipboard.GetFileDropList();
            string copiedFilePath = (fileNameCollection != null && fileNameCollection.Count > 0) ? fileNameCollection[0] : null;

edited Jul 20 '12 at 04:07

answered Jul 20 '12 at 03:55

danish

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '12 at 03:56

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try this :

public System.Drawing.Image SwapClipboardImage(
System.Drawing.Image replacementImage)
{
System.Drawing.Image returnImage = null;
if (Clipboard.ContainsImage())
{
    returnImage = Clipboard.GetImage();
    Clipboard.SetImage(replacementImage);
}
return returnImage;
}

from here link

answered Jul 20 '12 at 03:56

Scott Selby

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get the file name from the code I posted in chat , this is for if there is an image in clipboard – Scott Selby Jul 20 '12 at 04:06

Clipboard Data Source in C#

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