Clipboard Manager Add-In for Visual Studio 2005
posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 by bobby @ 11:22 pm

Update 1/23/2007 03:13 pm

New version 1.0.0.7. Click here to there now.


Update 5/29/2006 1:59:38 PM

New version 1.0.0.5. Click here to there now.


The clipboard is an imperative tool. I use it extensively when developing, especially when refactoring. Visual Studio sometimes makes it a bit challenging tho. For instance, with no text selected, Visual Studio will copy the entire line to the clipboard - even if the line is nothing but whitespace - this drives me nuts. Many-a-time I will copy a chunk of code onto the clipboard, do some cleaning, then paste the code into its new slot, only to find that my copied code has been replaced with whitespace. This is followed by a series of "undo"-ing until I recover my original code.

So I decided to write a little Add-In to address this issue. It prevents whitespace from being copied to the clipboard. More importantly, it manages your clipboard history, so you can go back and recover data you copied onto the clipboard hours ago.

Additionally, you can query your history simply by entering text in the "Search" field. This will filter your history down to items that match. Once you've found your data, double-click and it will be moved onto the clipboard.

This first version will ignore any non-text data (files, images, streams, etc). It also strips out HTML copied from the browser. Here is a screenshot of the Add-In in action:


Click here to download Clipboard Manager

Note - A bug in Visual Studio prevents the clipboard icon in the tool window tab from being displayed in true color. This only occurs the first time the tool window is docked. Once docked, subsequent instances of VS will display the icon correctly.

You must be using v2.0.50727 of the .NET Framework
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posted on Thursday, May 18, 2006  by Bjørn Reppen @ 5:21 PM

Looks nice (in the screenshot) but makes my Visual Studio crash on startup.
posted on Friday, May 19, 2006  by bobby @ 1:51 AM

Well that aint no good. I'm pretty sure that has been fixed. The latest version should not crash at all.

If you do experience a crash, please email me [derosa *at* gmail.com] with your VS Version (Standard, Team System, etc).
posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008  by Nic @ 5:35 AM

same problem :(

crash on startup.


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