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

Here's a similar solution, but this gives you a string you can show the user:

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr GetOpenClipboardWindow();

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern int GetWindowText(int hwnd, StringBuilder text, int count);

private string getOpenClipboardWindowText()
{
    IntPtr hwnd = GetOpenClipboardWindow();
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(501);
    GetWindowText(hwnd.ToInt32(), sb, 500);
    return sb.ToString();
}