Cut files to clipboard in C#

Question

I\'m looking for a way to programmatically cut a file to the clipboard, for example, some call to a function in C# that does the same as selecting a file in the Windows Expl

Answer 1

Just to see what happens, I replaced the MemoryStream with a DragDropEffects like this:

data.SetData("FileDrop", files);
data.SetData("Preferred DropEffect", DragDropEffects.Move);

Apparently, it works as a genuine cut rather than a copy! (This was on Windows 7 - I have not tried other operating systems). Unfortunately, it works only coincidentally. For example,

data.SetData("Preferred DropEffect", DragDropEffects.Copy);

does not yield a copy (still a cut). It seems that a non-null causes a cut, a null a copy.