Placing Text on the Clipboard

The static System.Windows.Clipboard class allows you to place text on the systemwide clipboard, or to detect whether any text exists on the clipboard.

Clipboard contains the following three methods:

ContainsText()—Queries the clipboard for the presence of text. Returns true if text is present; otherwise, false.

SetText(string text)—Places text in the clipboard.

GetText()—Raises a SecurityException on the Windows Phone platform.

Placing a Unicode string on the clipboard can be performed as shown:

Clipboard.SetText("foo");

The following example shows how to detect whether text is present on the clipboard:

bool clipBoardHasText = Clipboard.ContainsText();

If the ContainsText method returns true it indicates that the clipboard button will be visible when the SIP is displayed (see Figure 6.12).

FIGURE 6.12 Text on the clipboard causes the SIP to display the clipboard button.