Export to Clipboard

[Bober02]

Hey All, I am using theis piece of code to export chart to clipboard, but it is throwing exception when I try to paste it later into paint for instance...

// create a memory stream to save the chart image var stream = new MemoryStream();

// save the chart image to the stream chart1.Export(FileFormat.Bitmap, stream);

// create a bitmap using the stream var bmp = new Bitmap(stream);

// save the bitmap to the clipboard

Clipboard.SetDataObject(bmp);

 I get COMexception: Invalid FORMATETC structure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040064 (DV_E_FORMATETC)). Any ideas?

[JuanC]

I copied your code and it worked fine on 2 different machines. You might want to try changing your SetDataObject to this to see if it makes any difference

Clipboard.SetDataObject(new DataObject(DataFormats.Bitmap, bmp), true);

Also you can try exporting as a png instead of bitmap, both changes also worked in our tests. 

JuanC

[Bober02]

Managed to fix this issue. Thanks for your help.