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Add ToolTips to Windows Controls in VB.Net

Posted by Praveen Kumar in Articles | Visual Basic 2010 on November 16, 2004

Tags: .NET, Active Property, Adding ToolTip to Windows Controls., Creating ToolTip, FAQ, System.Winforms, System.Winforms.dll, ToolTip Control, ToolTips, VB.NET, Windows Controls

Creating a ToolTip object is similar to any other .NET class object. You call Constructor to create a tooltip object.

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Assembly System.Winforms.dll.
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In .NET, the ToolTip class provides tooltip functionality for Windows Controls. Creating a ToolTip object is similar to any other .NET class object. You call Constructor to create a tooltip object.

There are two steps to add a tooltip to a control. First you create an instance of ToolTip control using ToolTip class. And second you attach tooltip to a control by using ToolTip class's SetToolTip member and call set Active property true.

Active = true.

Say you want to add a tooltip to a button, button1.

1. Create a Tooltip Object

Private toolTip1 As ToolTip = New System.WinForms.ToolTip (Me.components)

2. Attach tooltip to the control.

Private toolTip1 As ToolTip = New System.WinForms.ToolTip (Me.components)
toolTip1.SetToolTip (button1, "This is tooltip test")
toolTip1.Active = True

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Hi.Can you let me know how to use tooltip function for a menu and submenus?

Posted by Srikanth G on Oct 27, 2010

Can we have a tool tip which displays the etxt in hindi.(C# .net)

Posted by Rahul Pandey on Sep 05, 2007

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