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Customizing a ToolTip

(Special thanks to Andre Michaud and Mike Russell who showed me how to do this.) ToolTips are quite useful for for displaying helpful information when the user hovers over a control. The way that ToolTips are usually used is by setting the ToolTipService.ToolTip

Control Lifecycle

What happens when you create a Control? When do overrides get called and events get raised? When do styles get applied? In response to this thread on silverlight.net, I've whipped this simple table up. There are some subtle differences between instantiating
 
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