Below is a little but complete program that appears to show that Dotnet 
can't retrive a Palette from the clipboard.

This is true wether the palette is placed on the clipboard by Photoshop or 
by the below program

I'd appreciate comments



Imports System.Drawing.Imaging

Public Class Form1

Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

Private WithEvents button1 As System.Windows.Forms.Button

Private WithEvents button2 As System.Windows.Forms.Button

Private WithEvents button3 As System.Windows.Forms.Button

Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer

Private cp As ColorPalette

Friend WithEvents ToolTip1 As System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip

Friend WithEvents TextBox1 As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

Friend WithEvents TextBox2 As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

Friend WithEvents Timer1 As System.Windows.Forms.Timer

Public Sub New()

InitializeComponent()

End Sub 'New

Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)

If disposing Then

If Not (components Is Nothing) Then

components.Dispose()

End If

End If

MyBase.Dispose(disposing)

End Sub 'Dispose

#Region "Windows Form Designer generated code"

Private Sub InitializeComponent()

Me.components = New System.ComponentModel.Container

Me.button1 = New System.Windows.Forms.Button

Me.button2 = New System.Windows.Forms.Button

Me.button3 = New System.Windows.Forms.Button

Me.ToolTip1 = New System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip(Me.components)

Me.TextBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

Me.TextBox2 = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

Me.Timer1 = New System.Windows.Forms.Timer(Me.components)

Me.SuspendLayout()

'

'button1

'

Me.button1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(186, 124)

Me.button1.Name = "button1"

Me.button1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(130, 24)

Me.button1.TabIndex = 2

Me.button1.Text = "Copy File Palette"

Me.ToolTip1.SetToolTip(Me.button1, "Copy Palette from a GIF file to the 
clipboard")

'

'button2

'

Me.button2.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(13, 124)

Me.button2.Name = "button2"

Me.button2.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(156, 24)

Me.button2.TabIndex = 2

Me.button2.Text = "Retrieve Clipboard Palette"

Me.ToolTip1.SetToolTip(Me.button2, "Retrieve a palette from the clipboard")

'

'button3

'

Me.button3.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(88, 167)

Me.button3.Name = "button3"

Me.button3.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(130, 24)

Me.button3.TabIndex = 2

Me.button3.Text = "Exit"

'

'TextBox1

'

Me.TextBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(12, 24)

Me.TextBox1.Multiline = True

Me.TextBox1.Name = "TextBox1"

Me.TextBox1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(304, 47)

Me.TextBox1.TabIndex = 3

Me.TextBox1.Text = "Palette can be placed on clipboard by using the 'Save 
Palette"" button or by some " & _

"external program such as Photoshop"

'

'TextBox2

'

Me.TextBox2.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(13, 85)

Me.TextBox2.Name = "TextBox2"

Me.TextBox2.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(302, 20)

Me.TextBox2.TabIndex = 4

'

'Timer1

'

Me.Timer1.Enabled = True

'

'Form1

'

Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)

Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(328, 204)

Me.Controls.Add(Me.TextBox2)

Me.Controls.Add(Me.TextBox1)

Me.Controls.Add(Me.button1)

Me.Controls.Add(Me.button2)

Me.Controls.Add(Me.button3)

Me.Name = "Form1"

Me.Text = "Form1"

Me.ResumeLayout(False)

Me.PerformLayout()

End Sub 'InitializeComponent

#End Region

<STAThread()> Shared Sub Main()

Application.Run(New Form1)

End Sub 'Main

Private Sub button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As 
System.EventArgs) Handles button1.Click

Dim dlg As New OpenFileDialog

dlg.Filter = "GIF files|*.GIF"

If dlg.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then

Dim zz As Image = Image.FromFile(dlg.FileName)

Dim DataO As New DataObject

DataO.SetData(DataFormats.Bitmap, False, CType(zz, Bitmap))

DataO.SetData(DataFormats.Palette.ToString, False, zz.Palette)

Clipboard.SetDataObject(DataO, False)

End If

End Sub 'button1_Click

Private Sub button2_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As 
System.EventArgs) Handles button2.Click

Dim DataO As DataObject = CType(Clipboard.GetDataObject(), DataObject)

If DataO.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Palette, False) Then

cp = CType(DataO.GetData(DataFormats.Palette), ColorPalette)

If cp Is Nothing Then

MessageBox.Show("Contains palette that is Nothing")

Else

MessageBox.Show(cp.ToString)

End If

Else

MessageBox.Show("No Palette on Clipboard")

End If


End Sub 'button2_Click

Private Sub button3_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As 
System.EventArgs) Handles button3.Click

Application.Exit()

End Sub 'button3_Click

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) 
Handles Timer1.Tick

Dim DataO As DataObject = CType(Clipboard.GetDataObject(), DataObject)

If DataO.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Palette, False) Then

Dim cp As ColorPalette = CType(DataO.GetData(DataFormats.Palette), 
ColorPalette)

TextBox2.Text = "There is a Palette on the Clipboard"

Else

TextBox2.Text = "The Clipboard does not contain a Palette"

End If

End Sub

End Class 'Form1