.Net Core - copy to clipboard?

Question

Is it possible to copy something to the clipboard using .Net Core (in a platform-agnostic way)?

It seems that the Clipboard class is missing, and P/Invoking is

Answer 1

I was looking for the same thing. PowerShell is cross-platform, so I figured I would try that. I've only tested it on Windows though.

public static class Clipboard
{
    public static void SetText(string text)
    {
        var powershell = new Process
        {
            StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
            {
                FileName = "powershell",
                Arguments = $"-command \"Set-Clipboard -Value \\\"{text}\\\"\""
            }
        };
        powershell.Start();
        powershell.WaitForExit();
    }

    public static string GetText()
    {
        var powershell = new Process
        {
            StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
            {
                RedirectStandardOutput = true,
                FileName = "powershell",
                Arguments = "-command \"Get-Clipboard\""
            }
        };

        powershell.Start();
        string text = powershell.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
        powershell.StandardOutput.Close();
        powershell.WaitForExit();
        return text.TrimEnd();
    }
}

Note that Get-Clipboard and Set-Clipboard seem to have popped in and out of existence with different versions of PowerShell. They were available in 5.1, not in 6, but are back again in 7.