Is it wrong for an application to copy to clipboard?

In an add-in to Visual Studio I want to take copy of the source code in the code window to the Clipboard using the following:   

objTextDoc = CType(_applicationObject.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument"), TextDocument)
    Selection = objTextDoc.Selection()
    Selection.SelectAll()
    Selection.Copy()

The reason is that Visual Studio copies the source code in RTF format to the clipboard that includessyntax highlighted source code , I need the syntax highlighted code.

I have read so many articles on the internet that say that no application should overwrite the clipboard contents. I tend to agree with that.  

If I could find another way to get hold of syntax highlighted code for a projectItem in a VS Project I would prefer not to use the clipboard.

What advice do you guys have?

Joginder Nahil
www.starprinttools.com