Question

I am unable to read a pasted datagridviewrow object from the clipboard. All I want to do is, when a user has the entire row selected and copied, I would paste that row into the clipboard as a DataObject. That works just fine but when I attempt to read that DataObject (after the user clicks Paste) the DataGridViewRow that’s saved in the clipboard always has a value of Nothing. Please help!

Here’s the code I’m using for Copy and Paste.

Private Sub copyToClipboard()
    If DataGridView1.CurrentCell IsNot Nothing AndAlso _
        DataGridView1.CurrentCell.Value IsNot Nothing Then
        If DataGridView1.SelectedRows.Count = 1 Then
            My.Computer.Clipboard.SetData(GetType(DataGridViewRow).ToString, getActiveGrid.SelectedRows(0))
        End If
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub pasteFromClipboard()
    Dim oDataObject As IDataObject = My.Computer.Clipboard.GetDataObject
    If oDataObject.GetDataPresent(GetType(DataGridViewRow).ToString) Then
        Dim GridRow As DataGridViewRow = _
            DirectCast(oDataObject.GetData(GetType(DataGridViewRow).ToString), DataGridViewRow)
        ' here's the issue. the variable GridRow always has a value of nothing. 
    End If
End Sub

Answer 1

This is what I use:

    Private Sub mnuCopy_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles mnuCopy.Click
    If dgvDisplaySet.GetClipboardContent Is Nothing Then
        MsgBox("Nothing selected to copy to clipboard.")
    Else
        Clipboard.SetDataObject(dgvDisplaySet.GetClipboardContent)
    End If
End Sub

I also have the data grid view’s clipboardCopyMode property set to EnableAlwaysIncludeHeaderText.

I want to copy whatever cells they have selected.

HTH