Clipboard problem needs to be resolved

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Hi,
In our application, we need to copy the text from some other application into clipboard for processing the data.
Now, if I have copied anything into clipboard before my main application has started copying from the other application, I lose that data (could be anything - string, image or a file).
I tried using Clipboard.SetDataObject function to set the original data back into clipboard but it throws an exception ‘Requested Clipboard operation did not succeed.’

Posted 24-Mar-11 23:47pm

RoopikaS

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Richard MacCutchan 25-Mar-11 6:47am

Try posting a snippet of the code you are using (for both the Get and Set operations), and also any more detail from the exception.

avigodse 29-Mar-11 10:20am

Check if your application do not have any background thread to clear clipboard.
Other possibilities can be having outer process that is clearing clipboard in background.

RoopikaS 30-Mar-11 0:29am

The issue is it, we are not sure as in what the user will copy, so it happens that there might be the loss of data, when we try to recover that data.How do we go for that?

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