How to find where the clipboard data copied in C#

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How to find where the Clipboard data copied in C#


Hi Team,

Forgive me if this is invalid question. I'm not sure about this.

Is there any ways to find the where the clipboard text copied?

What I have tried:

For example,

In C# we can retrieve the clipboard text using <pre> var clipboardObj = (DataObject)Clipboard.GetDataObject()

Here can we get where the data copied? like Excel or MSAccess or Notepad or something?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Arunkumar Murugesan

Posted 13-May-20 1:26am

Arunkumar Murugesan

Updated 13-May-20 1:56am

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F-ES Sitecore 13-May-20 8:28am

Not really, if you look at "((DataObject)Clipboard.GetDataObject()).GetFormats()" then it will show the formats of data in the clipboard, so Excel will have CSV, Word will have Rich Text etc, but other apps can put that type of data in the clipboard too so it is by no means definitive.

Arunkumar Murugesan 14-May-20 0:28am

Thanks F-ES Sitecore..

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2020-05-13T01:56:00

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The clipboard is just a repository for data and does not have a link back to the source. Consider the situation where you copy some text from a Word document then immediately close Word, and delete the document. The data is still in the clipboard but there is no way to trace where it came from.

Posted 13-May-20 1:56am

Richard MacCutchan

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Arunkumar Murugesan 13-May-20 8:05am

Thanks Richard. I understand. But it would be very helpful for me if there is a way to find the data copied from.

Richard MacCutchan 13-May-20 8:20am

Yes, but there isn't.

Maciej Los 13-May-20 8:25am

Agree. Take a look at MSDN documentation: Clipboard Class (System.Windows) | Microsoft Docs[^]
This class has no property, member or method which will return such of information.

Maciej Los 13-May-20 8:22am

5ed!

Richard MacCutchan 13-May-20 8:28am

Thanks Maciej. But I think the other comment was for the OP.

Maciej Los 13-May-20 8:30am

Yeah. I wanted to provide additional information to your comment.
Cheers!

Richard MacCutchan 13-May-20 9:39am

:thumbsup:

Arunkumar Murugesan 14-May-20 0:28am

Thank u all for your responses.