Can the VB 6.0 Clipboard Object functionality be implemented in Visual Basic .NET?
Visual Basic 6.0 has a Clipboard object that allows you to store and retrieve text and graphics to and from the Clipboard. In Visual Basic .NET, you manipulate the Clipboard using the System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard namespace. The new Clipboard classes are more flexible than those in Visual Basic 6.0 in that they allow you to set and retrieve data in a particular format and query the contents of the Clipboard object to see what formats are supported. The new flexibility comes at a cost; Visual Basic 6.0 Clipboard object code cannot be automatically upgraded. However, you will find it straightforward to implement the same functionality in Visual Basic .NET. For Visual Basic 2005, My.Computer is one of the top level groupings under the My namespace provided with Visual Studio .NET 2005. My.Computer provides access to instances of the most commonly used objects of the .NET Framework that relate to items in the computer running the application. One of these items is the Clipboard. The Visua
