.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell

Name

DataFormats

Synopsis

The Clipboard and drag-and-drop operations require you to encapsulate data into an IDataObject derived class. In part, this demands that you specify the Format of the data encapsulated, represented as string. There are several standard formats that the system understands, such as Dib (device-independent bitmap) and UnicodeText, and static properties are provided that return an appropriate format string to identify them. For more complex situations, there are also two static GetFormat() methods. Both return a Format object, mapping a format identification string to a clipboard format ID (an integer). The string version also registers the specified clipboard format with the OS if it hasn’t been registered previously.

public class DataFormats {

// Public Static Fields

   public static readonly string Bitmap;  // =Bitmap

   public static readonly string CommaSeparatedValue;  // =Csv

   public static readonly string Dib;  // =DeviceIndependentBitmap

   public static readonly string Dif;  // =DataInterchangeFormat

   public static readonly string EnhancedMetafile;  // =EnhancedMetafile

   public static readonly string FileDrop;  // =FileDrop

   public static readonly string Html;  // =HTML Format

   public static readonly string Locale;  // =Locale

   public static readonly string MetafilePict;  // =MetaFilePict

   public static readonly string OemText;  // =OEMText

   public static readonly string Palette;  // =Palette

   public static readonly string PenData;  // =PenData

   public static readonly string Riff ...