How to paste CSV data to Windows Clipboard with C#

Question

What I\'m trying to accomplish

• My app generates some tabular data
• I want the user to be able to launch Excel and click \"paste\" to place the data a

Answer 1

Use tabs instead of commas. ie:

Clipboard.SetText("1\t2\t3\t4\t3\t2\t3\t4", TextDataFormat.Text);

Just tested this myself, and it worked for me.