Customizing a ToolTip

Customizing a Silverlight Control ToolTip

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re: Customizing a ToolTip

wisemx — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:50:51 GMT

Very cool, thanks for sharing. ;-)

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re: Customizing a ToolTip

JamieH — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:59:17 GMT

How could you manipulate this custom tooltip template from code? For example, say I want to generate tool-tips on the fly, but I want to apply a custom template (such as the yellow background with the info icon), how would you do that?

re: Customizing a ToolTip

Dave Relyea — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:01:01 GMT

JamieH, this does the same thing in code:

ToolTip tt = new ToolTip();

tt.Template = (ControlTemplate) Resources["ToolTipTemplate"];

tt.Content = new TextBlock() {

FontFamily = new FontFamily("Georgia"),

FontSize = 14, Text = "This is a longer string of text.",

TextWrapping = TextWrapping.Wrap };

ToolTipService.SetToolTip(textBox, tt);

re: Customizing a ToolTip

zac@wetinkpro.com — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:01:09 GMT

I'm getting the following two errors when I copy the last tool tip example XAML into Blend.

What am I missing?

ERROR 1: The member "Content" is not recognized or is not accessible.

ERROR 2: The member "ContentTemplate" is not recognized or is not accessible.

I'm sort of a noob and more of a designer rather than a developer so I just opened a new solution in Blend and pasted in the XAML. Let me know what I'm missing. THANKS!!

-zac

re: Customizing a ToolTip

rebelBodhi — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:12:18 GMT

To clear up those 2 errors, you need to set the TargetType for the ControlTemplate, i.e.:

(Got those errors too, thanks to <a href='http://www.emadibrahim.com/2008/03/14/silverlight-templatebinding-throwing-an-error/'>this post for the answer</a>