title: Trigger OS to copy (ctrl+c or Ctrl-x) programmatically
body: <p>I'm working on a program to trigger cut and pastes</p>
  
  <p>Pastes I have no problem with (I just dump a string into the clipboard)</p>
  
  <p>Cut and or Copys are proving to be a little more difficult</p>
  
  <p>The program I have is out of focus and has several hot keys registered with the os <kbd>CTRL</kbd>+<kbd>ALT</kbd>+<kbd>2</kbd> <kbd>CTRL</kbd>+<kbd>ALT</kbd>+<kbd>3</kbd> etc)</p>
  
  <p>That I want to use to trigger Windows to copy anything that is highlighted in the window that is focused</p>
  
  <p>I tried doing a sendkeys </p>
  
  <pre><code>SendKeys.Send("^c");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but that seems to work once or twice if at all then stop working.</p>
  
  <p>is there a better way to try to trigger windows into coping highlighted content on a different window </p>