Month: March 2012

Last time, we discussed how applications place data on the clipboard, and how to access that data using the debugger.  Today, we’ll take a look at how an application can monitor the clipboard for changes.  Understanding this is important, because it is a place where Windows allows 3rd-party code to …

Recently, I had the opportunity to debug the clipboard in Windows, and I thought I’d share some of the things I learned.  The clipboard is one of those parts of Windows that many of us use dozens (hundreds?) of times a day and don’t really think about.  Before working on …