Copying data from Clipboard for PocketPC 2003

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Steve Payze via .NET 247

I am writing an application for a Pocket PC 2003 and want to retrieve some data from off the clipboard with Visual Basic .NET. The MSDN help gives the following:

Private Sub button2_Click(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)
' Declares an IDataObject to hold the data returned from the clipboard.
' Retrieves the data from the clipboard.
Dim iData As IDataObject = Clipboard.GetDataObject()

' Determines whether the data is in a format you can use.
If iData.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text) Then
' Yes it is, so display it in a text box.
textBox2.Text = CType(iData.GetData(DataFormats.Text), String)
Else
' No it is not.
textBox2.Text = "Could not retrieve data off the clipboard."
End If
End Sub 'button2_Click

When I build the project I keep getting the error 'error BC30002: Type 'IDataObject' is not defined.' I have added the statements
Imports System.Object
but this does not help. Any ideas ?
 
Clipboard support is not included in .NETCF v1.0. However there is an
equivalent class in the OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework
(www.opennetcf.org/sdf/) this was designed to have an object model just like
the full .NET framework, however it currently only supports text. After
installing SDF, add a reference to OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms.dll and add
Imports OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms
to the top of your code file. Then you can call the Clipboard object and
associated classes as they work in your example below

Peter

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