Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Placing Text on the Clipboard

The static System.Windows.Clipboard class allows you to place text on the systemwide clipboard, or to detect whether any text exists on the clipboard.

Note

You cannot retrieve the clipboard text from a Windows Phone app, only set it. Calling the GetText method raises a SecurityException.

Clipboard contains the following three methods:

ContainsText()—Queries the clipboard for the presence of text. Returns true if text is present; otherwise, false.

SetText(string text)—Places text in the clipboard.

GetText()—Raises ...