Clipboard.GetText Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Windows

Assembly:

PresentationCore.dll

Returns a string containing the text data on the Clipboard.

Overloads

GetText()	Returns a string containing the UnicodeText data on the Clipboard.
GetText(TextDataFormat)	Returns a string containing text data on the Clipboard.

GetText()

Returns a string containing the UnicodeText data on the Clipboard.

public:
 static System::String ^ GetText();

public static string GetText ();

static member GetText : unit -> string

Public Shared Function GetText () As String

Returns

String

A string containing the UnicodeText data , or an empty string if no UnicodeText data is available on the Clipboard.

Remarks

The UnicodeText data format denotes 16-bit character encoded Unicode, also referred to as UTF-16, and UCS-2.

See also

• GetAudioStream()
• GetDataObject()
• GetData(String)
• GetFileDropList()
• GetImage()
• ContainsText
• SetText
• DataFormats

GetText(TextDataFormat)

Returns a string containing text data on the Clipboard.

public:
 static System::String ^ GetText(System::Windows::TextDataFormat format);

public static string GetText (System.Windows.TextDataFormat format);

static member GetText : System.Windows.TextDataFormat -> string

Public Shared Function GetText (format As TextDataFormat) As String

Parameters

format

TextDataFormat

A member of TextDataFormat that specifies the text data format to retrieve.

Returns

String

A string containing text data in the specified data format, or an empty string if no corresponding text data is available.

See also

• GetAudioStream()
• GetDataObject()
• GetData(String)
• GetFileDropList()
• GetImage()
• ContainsText
• SetText
• DataFormats