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Clipz - A Friendly Introduction to the Windows 7 Taskbar Features

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17 Dec 2009CPOL9 min read 71.9K   1.6K   123  
An overview of the Windows 7 taskbar features, and how to use then in your own applications.
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Clipz
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Convenience class wrapping the Clipboard object which contains all static methods.  The only
    /// point to this class is to facilitate the truth table in the ClipboardManager.UpdateClipboard.
    /// </summary>
    public class ClipboardWrapper
    {
        public bool ContainsAudio { get { return Clipboard.ContainsAudio(); } }
        public bool ContainsImage { get { return Clipboard.ContainsImage(); } }
        public bool ContainsText { get { return Clipboard.ContainsText(); } }
        public bool ContainsRichText
        {
            get
            {
                try
                {
                    var data = Clipboard.GetDataObject();

                    return data != null && data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Rtf);
                }
                catch
                {
                    // Some apps manipulate text in ways that can't be easily parsed, and actually cause the
                    // calls to GetDataObject to throw errors.
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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