Question

I have a DataGridView (dgv1) on my form. In a particular cell, I’d like for the user to be able to right-click and choose “COPY” to copy the contents of the cell to the clipboard. Can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial or site that shows how to accomplish this in C#?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use ContextMenuStrip to accomplish this.
(Or ContextMenu for pre-VS2k5)

Excerpt from this article:

ContextMenuStrip mnu = new ContextMenuStrip();
ToolStripMenuItem mnuCopy = new ToolStripMenuItem("Copy");
ToolStripMenuItem mnuCut = new ToolStripMenuItem("Cut");
ToolStripMenuItem mnuPaste = new ToolStripMenuItem("Paste");
//Assign event handlers
mnuCopy.Click += new EventHandler(mnuCopy_Click);
mnuCut.Click += new EventHandler(mnuCut_Click);
mnuPaste.Click += new EventHandler(mnuPaste_Click);
//Add to main context menu
mnu.Items.AddRange(new ToolStripItem[] { mnuCopy, mnuCut, mnuPaste});
//Assign to datagridview
dataGridView1.ContextMenuStrip = mnu;

There is more information on the above link.