Copy selected item from listview using contextmenu

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I am trying to copy selected item from listview and pasting it in another text box using context menu.

What I have tried:

C#

private void mnuPaste_click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    IDataObject idata = Clipboard.GetDataObject();
    if(idata.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text))
    {
        txtdemo.text=(String)idata.GetData(DataFormats.Text);
    }
}

I tried for the code to paste the text. And I am able to paste the text in another text box. I was not able to copy the item from listview.

I followed https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5952/Context-Menu-for-ListView-Column-Manipulation for referance. Its nice information but could not find information to get value of selected item.

Posted 28-Feb-18 3:59am

webmail123

Updated 28-Feb-18 5:37am

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phil.o 28-Feb-18 10:01am

Please show the code which assigns the text value to the clipboard.

webmail123 28-Feb-18 10:18am

I tried to access Listview1.SelectedItem property but I am using Windows SDK 6.0 for mobile development, I am not able to access that property.

phil.o 28-Feb-18 10:56am

That is not my question :)
You have shown the part where you are pasting from the clipboard. We would like to have the part where you are copying to the clipboard.

webmail123 28-Feb-18 10:55am

I tried this one (which was just experimental)
Clipboard.SetDataObject(listView1.SelectedIndices[0].Tostring());

But obviously it returns the index value. Not the text. :-(

phil.o 28-Feb-18 10:58am

Then you should put a breakpoint on this line, lauch a debug session (F5), and see which one of the properties of the listview actually holds the value you want.

webmail123 28-Feb-18 11:17am

Well, using .Net 3.5 compact framework. So working on it. Thanks for an input though.. :-)

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webmail123 · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-28T05:38:00

I am using .Net compact framework so I was unable to perform to copy the string of the selected item and put it into clipboard. But Now I have done it.

This is what I did:

C#

private void mnuCopy_click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string ind1 = listView1.SelectedIndices[0].ToString();
    int ind2 = Convert.ToInt16(ind1);
    string item = listView1.Items[ind2].Text; //here I got the string of selected item
    Clipboard.SetDataObject(item);
}