Clipboard Copying objects to and from

Question

I am trying to copy an object onto the windows clipboard and off again. My code is like this:

Copy on to clipboard:

Clipboard.Clear();
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Answer 1

I came across this while trying to send a list of items to my clipboard. What I needed was the string representation of those items, not the entire object. I tried a few of the suggestions here, to no avail. However, I did come up with my own solution and I wanted to share it. See below.

public static void CopyToClipboard(this IEnumerable items)
{
    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

    foreach (T item in items)
        stringBuilder.Append(item.ToString()).AppendLine();

    Clipboard.SetText(stringBuilder.ToString());
}

Add this as an extension method and be sure to override your custom Type's ToString() method.