Add a baloon type tooltip message for your form

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Introduction

The following example demonstrate how to make a baloon tooltip hint message using "ToolTip" component.

About Windows ToolTip component

The Windows Forms ToolTip component displays text when the user mouse over a control on the form. You can associate the ToolTip control with any other control. You have to place the ToolTip control on your form for setting the properties such as Delay, Animation, Fading etc.  Tooltip will help you to save the space in form to show messages as well as a small description of the particular control or item you want to show details.

A ToolTip component provides a ToolTip property to multiple controls on a Windows Form or other container. At the same time, you can inherit all the properties of the same control any of your form.  That means you can dynamatically change the properties, tooltip style , color on your different forms or controls, based on your choice.

Methods of the ToolTip Component

There are two key methods are used in the ToolTip component.  They are

  SetToolTip, which you can use to get the ToolTips displayed for controls and

  GetToolTip, can use to set the ToolTips displayed for controls.

Setting a tooltip

 ' In this example, Text1 is the control to display the ToolTip.
ToolTip1.SetToolTip(Text1, "To display employee name")

Sample Program

A simple sample program attached herewith demonstrates to display baloon type popup tooltips over link labels such as Code project.com, Microsoft.com.

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Benoyraj