Thanks. As an aside, VS has a clipboard ring using either Ctrl-Shift-V or Ctrl-Shift-Ins.
I realise ClipMate gives this functionality globally but thought I shld mention it anyway. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 12:02 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: VS2010 Copy / Paste functions broken You could try using ClipMate - it has some nice clipboard diagnostics, shows clip chain, formats, etc. Its main purpose is to give you multi-level clips (IOW, you go copy copy copy to the clipboard, and it lets you get back the first copy :) Shareware. On 19 October 2010 12:52, Wallace Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using Remote Desktop (to connect to other machines, i am NOT using > VS2010 over remote desktop) > > > > I saw that as a suggestion (kill rdpclip.exe) so I tried using VS for a day > without leaving remote desktop sessions open - problem still occurs. > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of David Kean > Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 9:45 AM > To: ozDotNet > Subject: RE: VS2010 Copy / Paste functions broken > > > > The Windows Clipboard is quite possibly the worst feature of Windows to work > with – it’s extremely hard to write resilient code against it. When Visual > Studio moved to the new editor, its native implementation that wrapped the > clipboard was also moved to managed code. Unfortunately, the Framework > wrapper isn’t as baked as the native Visual Studio one – so the editor > inherited all the problems of the managed one. > > > > One of the biggest problems with the clipboard is that only one process as a > time can open it to read or write to it – so the majority of all copy/paste > issues come down to another process opening it at the same time as Visual > Studio. An example of this is when using Remote Desktop or when running > Visual Studio in a virtual machine. > > > > Are you doing any of these? > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Wallace Turner > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 6:35 PM > To: 'ozDotNet' > Subject: VS2010 Copy / Paste functions broken > > > > Is anyone else experiencing cut/copy/paste issues in Visual Studio 2010? > This has been logged at least connect 3 times (see below for one such > instance) > > > > The workarounds arent working for me. Has anyone run into this problem and > got a successful workaround- it's *extremly* annoying. > > > > http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/553061/vs2010-copy-paste-functions-are-not-working-as-expected -- Meski "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
