It's often useful to copy multiple items to the clipboard and paste them later, but the clipboard can only hold one item at a time. Visual Studio includes a clipboard history that stores the last 20 items you copied.
To use it, press CTRL + SHIFT + V:
Visual Studio clipboard history
This is also available from the menu:
Accessing clipboard history from the menu
The clipboard history was introduced in Visual Studio 2003. At this time, it was called "Clipboard ring".
#Windows Clipboard history (Windows 10)
Windows also has a built-in clipboard history. Press WIN + V to open it. You must first enable it in Settings (documentation). In VS 2019, the popup does not appear under the cursor, but it still works.
Windows clipboard history
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