Clipboard.SetText Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Windows

Assembly:

PresentationCore.dll

Stores text data on the Clipboard. The text data to store is specified as a string.

Overloads

SetText(String)	Stores UnicodeText data on the Clipboard.
SetText(String, TextDataFormat)	Stores text data on the Clipboard in a specified text data format. The UnicodeText data to store is specified as a string.

SetText(String)

Stores UnicodeText data on the Clipboard.

public:
 static void SetText(System::String ^ text);

public static void SetText (string text);

static member SetText : string -> unit

Public Shared Sub SetText (text As String)

Parameters

text

String

A string that contains the UnicodeText data to store on the Clipboard.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

text is null.

Remarks

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

This method adds data with auto-conversion disabled.

See also

• SetAudio
• SetData(String, Object)
• SetDataObject
• SetFileDropList(StringCollection)
• SetImage(BitmapSource)
• ContainsText
• GetImage()
• DataFormats

SetText(String, TextDataFormat)

Stores text data on the Clipboard in a specified text data format. The UnicodeText data to store is specified as a string.

public:
 static void SetText(System::String ^ text, System::Windows::TextDataFormat format);

public static void SetText (string text, System.Windows.TextDataFormat format);

static member SetText : string * System.Windows.TextDataFormat -> unit

Public Shared Sub SetText (text As String, format As TextDataFormat)

Parameters

text

String

A string that contains the text data to store on the Clipboard.

format

TextDataFormat

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

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

text is null.

Remarks

This method adds data with auto-conversion disabled.

See also

• SetAudio
• SetData(String, Object)
• SetDataObject
• SetFileDropList(StringCollection)
• SetImage(BitmapSource)
• ContainsText
• GetImage()
• DataFormats