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VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, Second Edition
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VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, Second Edition

by Steven Roman PhD, Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax
April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
19h 51m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

IDataObject Interface

Namespace

System.Windows.Forms

Createable

No

Description

The IDataObject interface is used by the Clipboard for data-transfer operations. It is also used for drag-and-drop operations. An instance of the IDataObject interface is returned by the Clipboard object’s GetData method.

Public Instance Methods

Those methods marked with a plus sign (+) are covered in more detail in their own entries:

GetData +
GetDataPresent +
GetFormats +
SetData

VB.NET/VB 6 Differences

The IDataObject interface is new to VB.NET.

See Also

Clipboard Class

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