.net - Cut files to clipboard in C#

Question

I'm looking for a way to programmatically cut a file to the clipboard, for example, some call to a function in C# that does the same as selecting a file in the Windows Explorer and pressing Ctrl + X.

After running the program and pressing Ctrl + V in some other folder on the hard drive, the original file would be moved to the new folder. By looking at Stack Overflow question Copy files to clipboard in C#, I know that it's easy to do the copy job, but cutting seems to work different. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Please try the following, translated from The Code Project article Setting the Clipboard File DropList with DropEffect in VB.NET:

byte[] moveEffect = new byte[] {2, 0, 0, 0};
MemoryStream dropEffect = new MemoryStream();
dropEffect.Write(moveEffect, 0, moveEffect.Length);

DataObject data = new DataObject();
data.SetFileDropList(files);
data.SetData("Preferred DropEffect", dropEffect);

Clipboard.Clear();
Clipboard.SetDataObject(data, true);