Trigger event when data copied to clipboard

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Dustin Davis

Is it possible to trigger an event in VB.NET whenever anything is copied
to the clipboard?
 
AFAIK, there is no built-in support for this.

What I've done in the past is to simply use a Timer and to monitor the
Clipboard content(s) in the timer event.

Dick

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