Peter Foot
02-15-2005, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blogs.msdn.com/marcpe/archive/2005/02/15/373094.aspx' target='_blank'>http://blogs.msdn.com/marcpe/archiv.../15/373094.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"What I set out to do was create a VS designer hosted control that would capture mouse moves on all standard controls and simulate the real tooltip control functionality on the device - and of course it needed to work on the desktop as well. Initially I committed just one day of work on this, but I’m up to four and still counting (lesson 1: never trust developer’s estimates for anything!)."</i><br /><br />Marcus Perryman at Microsoft provides a walkthough of his experience of creating a Tooltip control for the .NET Compact Framework and shares the code he used.