How to access clipboard in VS 2017 extension project

Question

I try to interact with windows clipboard via SVsUIHierWinClipboardHelper using this code:

var dataObject = new OleDataObject();
dataObject.SetText("sometext"); 
clipboardHelper.Copy(dataObject);

but it has no effect. How to copy a simple text to clipboard correctly?

Answer 1

You can just use .NET Clipboard class:

System.Windows.Clipboard.SetText("sometext");