Determine which process is locking the clipboard

Question

I have a peculiar error where some process occasionally appears to be using the clipboard when my application goes to handle copy & paste operations. There are some ret

Answer 1

I've wrapped my solution into an easy-to-use method (and some declarations):

[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern IntPtr GetOpenClipboardWindow();

[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern int GetWindowThreadProcessId(IntPtr hWnd, out int lpdwProcessId);

private static Process GetProcessLockingClipboard()
{
    int processId;
    GetWindowThreadProcessId(GetOpenClipboardWindow(), out processId);

    return Process.GetProcessById(processId);
}

Enjoy!