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Mivoat — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:22:35 GMT

Is there a way to pin the tooltip - like we do to popup variables in Visual Studio? That would mean being able to add a scroll bar - which I need in my app for huge tooltips my customer wants popping up. Thanks for a great component, Clive.

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XavierDecoster — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:31:06 GMT

Project Description
This Silverlight ToolTipService makes it easier to set tooltips on Silverlight controls with a specified delay and display duration. It's developed in C# and delivered as a Silverlight library.
You can set initial delay, fade-out and display duration properties of a ToolTip.

Introduction
It surprised me that a simple option like setting the display time or the initial delay of a ToolTip is still not possible in Silverlight, although these properties are present in their WPF counterpart.

Sometimes, you want some custom ToolTip behavior:
for instance, some ToolTips need to persist as long as the control has focus, or others need a specific display duration (for example 10 seconds), or should only show up after an initial delay of 3 seconds.
The default Silverlight setting is a display time of 5 seconds, and then it’s gone until you mouse out and mouse over the control again.

Optionally, you can also set a custom Storyboard that is triggered when a ToolTips opens or closes, using the OpenAnimation and CloseAnimation properties.

Since Silverlight already provides us with a static ToolTipService class that takes care of the basic ToolTip functionality, I thought it was a good idea to extend its behavior a bit.
Initially.
It didn't take me long until I hit some MS internal exceptions.

Features
That’s how I ended up creating the following custom ToolTipService and custom ToolTip class.
It provides new ToolTip behaviors:

you can set persistent ToolTips: duration = until mouse out (DisplayTime = int.MaxValue)
you can specify the amount of seconds the ToolTip should display (DisplayTime property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip opens (OpenAnimation property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip closes (CloseAnimation property)
you can specify an initial delay for the ToolTip (InitialDelay property)
you can databind the ToolTip content

Release
Latest release: Silverlight Advanced ToolTips v2.2.0
Release notes: Changelog

How to use
If you download the source code (Silverlight Advanced ToolTips v2.2.0), you'll have a demo Silverlight application that explains the use of of this library, both from within XAML and in C# code.
Take a look at the sample application here).

There is also a great video tutorial to be found here.
For more documentation on this library, please visit the Documentation tab, or visit my blog for the latest news.

For the moment being, this solution fit’s to provide this behavior.
Ofcourse, if anyone has a better solution for this, please feel free to point us in the right direction with your suggestions and/or remarks.

If you like it, please vote for it on Silverlight Uservoice.

Above all, have fun with Silverlight and I wish you impactful developments!

Updated Wiki: Changelog

XavierDecoster — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:39:11 GMT

changelog v2.1.1 --> v2.2.0

bugfix: fixed a memory leak issue
bugfix: fixed an internal NullReferenceException on ToolTipService.OnElementIsEnabledChanged
bugfix: fixed an internal KeyNotFoundException on ToolTipService.OnElementIsEnabledChanged
bugfix: now properly supports binding with Fallback value when binding directly against Tooltip attached property
new: added read-only bindable public property "Owner" which is a reference to the FrameworkElement that owns the ToolTip

changelog v2.1.0 --> v2.1.1 (hotfix release)

bugfix: tooltip displaytime did not trigger tooltip closing in some cases

changelog v2.0.2 --> v2.1.0

bugfix: when no tooltip content has been set, no tooltip will be shown
bugfix: in some cases, datacontext changes caused the tooltip not to close properly
upgrade: tooltip timer sensibility increased with factor 2 (from 100ms to 50ms), allowing users to set delay and duration time up to a precision of 50ms

changelog v2.0.1 --> v2.0.2

bugfix: fixed defect causing the tooltip not to close in some cases when no close animation was set

changelog v2.0.0 --> v2.0.1

bugfix: fixed defect causing the tooltip not to show in some cases when no open animation or initial delay was set

changelog v1.5.0 --> v2.0.0

new: support for browser zoomfactor
new: support for custom Open and Close animations
upgrade: BREAKING ! renamed ShowDuration to DisplayTime
upgrade: BREAKING ! removed FadeOutDuration property and hard-coded fade-out animation
upgrade: BREAKING ! changed type of DisplayTime from int to Duration
upgrade: BREAKING ! changed type of InitialDelay from int to Duration

changelog v1.4.1 --> v1.5.0

new: configurable fade-out dependency property on ToolTip and behavior in ToolTipService
bugfix: fixes databinding functionality in Silverlight 3
upgrade: adds databinding example to red button mouse over in tester application
upgrade: organized code a little better and renamed variables for name rules compliance
upgrade: various small tweaks to get rid of all but one FXCOP warning (strong signing is the only warning left)

changelog v1.3 --> v1.4.1

upgrade: recompiled the library against the Silverlight 3 Core CLR
upgrade: reworked the demo application (in preparation of future datacontext demo)

changelog v1.2 --> v1.3

bugfix: fixed issue with databinding the ToolTip Text property

changelog v1.1 --> v1.2:

bugfix: fixed issue with dependency properties on ToolTip

changelog v1.0 --> v1.1:

bugfix: when the InitialDelay property was set, the ToolTipTimer did not respect the timing for the ShowDuration property.
bugfix: when the owner control of the ToolTip is disabled while displaying it's ToolTip, the ToolTip now hides immediately
bugfix: first time positioning of the ToolTip is now correct
new: in the demo application, you can click the button to disable it (an easy way to test if the ToolTip actually disappears when disabling it's owner control)
new: in the demo application, there is an example of how to use the ToolTipService from within code (C#)

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geardoom3 — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:16:41 GMT

I have a stack panel vertical which have a TextBlock and then another StackPanel horizontal with 2 TextBlock. the second textblock on the horizontal StackPanel is set to wrap but it doesn't. Here's the entire code along with a screenshot that shows what it does. How would you modify it so the Note Text wrap and make the ToolTip grow to show all the text because in 1024 X 768, the ToolTip needs to grow vertically if no space is available to show the Note Text StackPanel spContent = new StackPanel() { Orientation = System.Windows.Controls.Orientation.Vertical, VerticalAlignment = System.Windows.VerticalAlignment.Stretch }; StackPanel spNote = new StackPanel() { Orientation = System.Windows.Controls.Orientation.Horizontal, VerticalAlignment = System.Windows.VerticalAlignment.Stretch }; TextBlock tbHeaderNote = new TextBlock() { FontFamily = new FontFamily("Courier New"), FontSize = 14, Margin = new Thickness() { Left = 4 }, Foreground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.White), TextWrapping = System.Windows.TextWrapping.Wrap, Text = "Note : " }; TextBlock tbNote = new TextBlock() { FontFamily = new FontFamily("Courier New"), FontSize = 14, Margin = new Thickness() { Left = 4 }, Foreground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.White), TextWrapping = System.Windows.TextWrapping.Wrap, Text = ncs.U_Note + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine, }; spNote.Children.Add(tbHeaderNote); spNote.Children.Add(tbNote); TextBlock tbInfo = new TextBlock() { FontFamily = new FontFamily("Courier New"), FontSize = 14, Margin = new Thickness() { Left = 4 }, Foreground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.White), Text = "Interface Control Name : " + ncs.Name + Environment.NewLine + "Silverlight Property : " + SLProperty + Environment.NewLine + "Step : " + ncs.U_ApprovalStepId.ToString() + Environment.NewLine + "SAP Form : " + SAPForm + Environment.NewLine + "SQL Table Field : " + SQLTableField + Environment.NewLine + "SDK Property : " + ncs.U_SAPProperty, TextWrapping = TextWrapping.NoWrap, }; spContent.Children.Add(tbInfo); spContent.Children.Add(spNote); http://pages.videotron.com/gear/tooltip.jpg

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geardoom3 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:01:00 GMT

Works great. Thank you... Any change to see it in the Silverlight 5 dundle so we don't have an independent dll to keep ?

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geardoom3 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:56:54 GMT

Also I did look at the video and it's talking about a reference of Silverlight.Controls.dll however the download have a different reference which is Silverlight.Controls.ToolTips.dll That's why in my example above was my last attempt trying like the video shows. but in fact I have th reference Silverlight.Controls.ToolTips and not Silverlight.Controls

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geardoom3 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:51:46 GMT

This doesn't work with this : xmlns:CustomTT="clr-namespace:Silverlight.Controls;assembly=Silverlight.Controls" <ControlTemplate x:Key="ToolTipTemplate" TargetType="CustomTT:ToolTipService.ToolTip"> <Border BorderBrush="#FF276FFF" BorderThickness="4" CornerRadius="8" Background="PaleGoldenrod" MaxWidth="200"> <Border.Effect> <DropShadowEffect ShadowDepth="11" Opacity="0.665"/> </Border.Effect> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="auto"/> <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Grid Margin="2" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top"> <Ellipse Fill="Black" Height="52" Width="52"/> <Ellipse Stroke="White" StrokeThickness="4" Fill="Blue" Height="50" Width="50"/> <TextBlock Text="i" FontStyle="italic" FontSize="40" FontFamily="Georgia" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Foreground="White"/> </Grid> <ContentPresenter Grid.Column="1" Content="{TemplateBinding Content}" ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding ContentTemplate}" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="0,6,0,0"/> </Grid> </Border> </ControlTemplate>

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ginnysmith76 — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:13:30 GMT

This is, quite possibly, the smoothest, easiest custom silverlight control I have ever used. Thanks so much...perfect solution to my problems!

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XavierDecoster — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:58:17 GMT

you can set persistent ToolTips: duration = until mouse out (DisplayTime = int.MaxValue)
you can specify the amount of seconds the ToolTip should display (DisplayTime property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip opens (OpenAnimation property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip closes (CloseAnimation property)
you can specify an initial delay for the ToolTip (InitialDelay property)
you can databind the ToolTip content

Release
Latest release: Advanced ToolTipService v2.1.1
Release notes: Changelog

How to use
If you download the source code (Advanced ToolTipService v2.1.1), you'll have a demo Silverlight application that explains the use of of this library, both from within XAML and in C# code.
Take a look at the sample application here).

There is also a great video tutorial to be found here.
For more documentation on this library, please visit the Documentation tab, or visit my blog for the latest news.

For the moment being, this solution fit’s to provide this behavior.
Ofcourse, if anyone has a better solution for this, please feel free to point us in the right direction with your suggestions and/or remarks.

If you like it, please vote for it on Silverlight Uservoice.

Above all, have fun with Silverlight and I wish you impactful developments!

Updated Wiki: Changelog

XavierDecoster — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:57:17 GMT

changelog v2.1.0 --> v2.1.1 (hotfix release)

bugfix: tooltip displaytime did not trigger tooltip closing in some cases

changelog v2.0.2 --> v2.1.0

bugfix: when no tooltip content has been set, no tooltip will be shown
bugfix: in some cases, datacontext changes caused the tooltip not to close properly
upgrade: tooltip timer sensibility increased with factor 2 (from 100ms to 50ms), allowing users to set delay and duration time up to a precision of 50ms

changelog v2.0.1 --> v2.0.2

bugfix: fixed defect causing the tooltip not to close in some cases when no close animation was set

changelog v2.0.0 --> v2.0.1

bugfix: fixed defect causing the tooltip not to show in some cases when no open animation or initial delay was set

changelog v1.5.0 --> v2.0.0

new: support for browser zoomfactor
new: support for custom Open and Close animations
upgrade: BREAKING ! renamed ShowDuration to DisplayTime
upgrade: BREAKING ! removed FadeOutDuration property and hard-coded fade-out animation
upgrade: BREAKING ! changed type of DisplayTime from int to Duration
upgrade: BREAKING ! changed type of InitialDelay from int to Duration

changelog v1.4.1 --> v1.5.0

new: configurable fade-out dependency property on ToolTip and behavior in ToolTipService
bugfix: fixes databinding functionality in Silverlight 3
upgrade: adds databinding example to red button mouse over in tester application
upgrade: organized code a little better and renamed variables for name rules compliance
upgrade: various small tweaks to get rid of all but one FXCOP warning (strong signing is the only warning left)

changelog v1.3 --> v1.4.1

upgrade: recompiled the library against the Silverlight 3 Core CLR
upgrade: reworked the demo application (in preparation of future datacontext demo)

changelog v1.2 --> v1.3

bugfix: fixed issue with databinding the ToolTip Text property

changelog v1.1 --> v1.2:

bugfix: fixed issue with dependency properties on ToolTip

changelog v1.0 --> v1.1:

bugfix: when the InitialDelay property was set, the ToolTipTimer did not respect the timing for the ShowDuration property.
bugfix: when the owner control of the ToolTip is disabled while displaying it's ToolTip, the ToolTip now hides immediately
bugfix: first time positioning of the ToolTip is now correct
new: in the demo application, you can click the button to disable it (an easy way to test if the ToolTip actually disappears when disabling it's owner control)
new: in the demo application, there is an example of how to use the ToolTipService from within code (C#)

Updated Wiki: Home

XavierDecoster — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:30:24 GMT

you can set persistent ToolTips: duration = until mouse out (DisplayTime = int.MaxValue)
you can specify the amount of seconds the ToolTip should display (DisplayTime property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip opens (OpenAnimation property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip closes (CloseAnimation property)
you can specify an initial delay for the ToolTip (InitialDelay property)
you can databind the ToolTip content

Release
Latest release: Advanced ToolTipService v2.1.1

How to use
If you download the source code (Advanced ToolTipService v2.1.1), you'll have a demo Silverlight application that explains the use of of this library, both from within XAML and in C# code.
Take a look at the sample application here).

There is also a great video tutorial to be found here.
For more documentation on this library, please visit the Documentation tab, or visit my blog for the latest news.

For the moment being, this solution fit’s to provide this behavior.
Ofcourse, if anyone has a better solution for this, please feel free to point us in the right direction with your suggestions and/or remarks.

If you like it, please vote for it on Silverlight Uservoice.

Above all, have fun with Silverlight and I wish you impactful developments!

Updated Wiki: Documentation

XavierDecoster — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:58:25 GMT

Dependencies
Since it is a Silverlight library (it has only purpose if you reference it from within a Silverlight application or library), you won't have any issues regarding dependencies to other libraries. Internally, it only references the following: mscorlib, system, System.Core and System.Windows.

How to set a persistent ToolTip in Code

toolTip.DisplayTime = Duration.Forever;

toolTip.SetValue(ToolTip.DisplayTimeProperty, Duration.Forever);

How to set advanced ToolTip properties in XAML

Take a look at the sample code below:

<Controls:ToolTipService.ToolTip>
     <!-- Set the ToolTip display time and initial delay -->
     <Controls:ToolTip DisplayTime="00:00:10" InitialDelay="00:00:03" x:Name="greenTooltip">

          <!-- Set the ToolTip close animation -->
          <Controls:ToolTip.CloseAnimation>
               <Storyboard Duration="00:00:01">
                    <DoubleAnimation From="1" To="0" Storyboard.TargetName="greenTooltip" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"/>
               </Storyboard>
          </Controls:ToolTip.CloseAnimation>

          <!-- Set the ToolTip open animation -->
          <Controls:ToolTip.OpenAnimation>
               <Storyboard Duration="00:00:01">
                    <DoubleAnimation From="0" To="1" Storyboard.TargetName="greenTooltip" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"/>
               </Storyboard>
          </Controls:ToolTip.OpenAnimation>

          <!-- Set the ToolTip content -->
          <Controls:ToolTip.Content>
               <StackPanel Margin="5" >
                    <TextBlock Text="This tooltip has a DisplayTime of 10 seconds." />
                    <TextBlock Text="You can put whatever xaml you want in here..." />
               </StackPanel>
          </Controls:ToolTip.Content>
                        
     </Controls:ToolTip>
</Controls:ToolTipService.ToolTip>

A video tutorial can be found here.

More documentation is under construction.

Updated Wiki: Home

XavierDecoster — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:28:57 GMT

Project Description
This Silverlight ToolTipService makes it easier to set tooltips on Silverlight controls with a specified delay and display duration. It's developed in C# and delivered as a Silverlight library.
You can set initial delay, fade-out and display duration properties of a ToolTip.

Introduction
It surprised me that a simple option like setting the display time or the initial delay of a ToolTip is still not possible in Silverlight 3.0, although these properties are present in their WPF counterpart.

Sometimes, you want some custom ToolTip behavior:
for instance, some ToolTips need to persist as long as the control has focus, or others need a specific display duration (for example 10 seconds), or should only show up after an initial delay of 3 seconds.
The default Silverlight setting is a display time of 5 seconds, and then it’s gone until you mouse out and mouse over the control again.

Optionally, you can also set a custom Storyboard that is triggered when a ToolTips opens or closes, using the OpenAnimation and CloseAnimation properties.

Since Silverlight already provides us with a static ToolTipService class that takes care of the basic ToolTip functionality, I thought it was a good idea to extend its behavior a bit.
Initially.
It didn't take me long until I hit some MS internal exceptions.

Features
That’s how I ended up creating the following custom ToolTipService and custom ToolTip class.
It provides new ToolTip behaviors:

you can set persistent ToolTips: duration = until mouse out (DisplayTime = int.MaxValue)
you can specify the amount of seconds the ToolTip should display (DisplayTime property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip opens (OpenAnimation property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip closes (CloseAnimation property)
you can specify an initial delay for the ToolTip (InitialDelay property)
you can databind the ToolTip content

Release
Latest release: Advanced ToolTipService v2.1.1 Notice: the default target runtime is now Silverlight 4 ! The Silverlight 3 compiled version is still available.

How to use
If you download the source code (Advanced ToolTipService v2.1.1), you'll have a demo Silverlight application that explains the use of of this library, both from within XAML and in C# code.
Take a look at the sample application here).

There is also a great video tutorial to be found here.
For more documentation on this library, please visit the Documentation tab, or visit my blog for the latest news.

For the moment being, this solution fit’s to provide this behavior.
Ofcourse, if anyone has a better solution for this, please feel free to point us in the right direction with your suggestions and/or remarks.

If you like it, please vote for it on Silverlight Uservoice.

Above all, have fun with Silverlight and wishing you impactful developments!

Updated Wiki: Documentation

XavierDecoster — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:16:07 GMT

How to set advanced ToolTip properties in XAML

Take a look at the sample code below:

<Controls:ToolTipService.ToolTip>
     <!-- Set the ToolTip display time and initial delay -->
     <Controls:ToolTip DisplayTime="00:00:10" InitialDelay="00:00:03" x:Name="greenTooltip">

          <!-- Set the ToolTip close animation -->
          <Controls:ToolTip.CloseAnimation>
               <Storyboard Duration="00:00:01">
                    <DoubleAnimation From="1" To="0" Storyboard.TargetName="greenTooltip" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"/>
               </Storyboard>
          </Controls:ToolTip.CloseAnimation>

          <!-- Set the ToolTip open animation -->
          <Controls:ToolTip.OpenAnimation>
               <Storyboard Duration="00:00:01">
                    <DoubleAnimation From="0" To="1" Storyboard.TargetName="greenTooltip" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"/>
               </Storyboard>
          </Controls:ToolTip.OpenAnimation>

          <!-- Set the ToolTip content -->
          <Controls:ToolTip.Content>
               <StackPanel Margin="5" >
                    <TextBlock Text="This tooltip has a DisplayTime of 10 seconds." />
                    <TextBlock Text="You can put whatever xaml you want in here..." />
               </StackPanel>
          </Controls:ToolTip.Content>
                        
     </Controls:ToolTip>
</Controls:ToolTipService.ToolTip>

A video tutorial can be found here.

More documentation is under construction.

Updated Wiki: Home

XavierDecoster — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:15:24 GMT

Project Description
This Silverlight ToolTipService makes it easier to set tooltips on Silverlight controls with a specified delay and display duration. It's developed in C# and delivered as a Silverlight library.
You can set initial delay, fade-out and display duration properties of a ToolTip.

Introduction
It surprised me that a simple option like setting the display time or the initial delay of a ToolTip is still not possible in Silverlight 3.0, although these properties are present in their WPF counterpart.

Sometimes, you want some custom ToolTip behavior:
for instance, some ToolTips need to persist as long as the control has focus, or others need a specific display duration (for example 10 seconds), or should only show up after an initial delay of 3 seconds.
The default Silverlight setting is a display time of 5 seconds, and then it’s gone until you mouse out and mouse over the control again.

Optionally, you can also set a custom Storyboard that is triggered when a ToolTips opens or closes, using the OpenAnimation and CloseAnimation properties.

Since Silverlight already provides us with a static ToolTipService class that takes care of the basic ToolTip functionality, I thought it was a good idea to extend its behavior a bit.
Initially.
It didn't take me long until I hit some MS internal exceptions.

Features
That’s how I ended up creating the following custom ToolTipService and custom ToolTip class.
It provides new ToolTip behaviors:

you can set persistent ToolTips: duration = until mouse out (DisplayTime = int.MaxValue)
you can specify the amount of seconds the ToolTip should display (DisplayTime property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip opens (OpenAnimation property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip closes (CloseAnimation property)
you can specify an initial delay for the ToolTip (InitialDelay property)
you can databind the ToolTip content

Release
Latest release: Advanced ToolTipService v2.1.0 Notice: the default target runtime is now Silverlight 4 ! The Silverlight 3 compiled version is still available.

How to use
If you download the source code (Advanced ToolTipService v2.1.0), you'll have a demo Silverlight application that explains the use of of this library, both from within XAML and in C# code.
Take a look at the sample application here).

There is also a great video tutorial to be found here.
For more documentation on this library, please visit the Documentation tab, or visit my blog for the latest news.

For the moment being, this solution fit’s to provide this behavior.
Ofcourse, if anyone has a better solution for this, please feel free to point us in the right direction with your suggestions and/or remarks.

If you like it, please vote for it on Silverlight Uservoice.

Above all, have fun with Silverlight and wishing you impactful developments!

Updated Wiki: Home

XavierDecoster — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:45:02 GMT

Project Description
This Silverlight ToolTipService makes it easier to set tooltips on Silverlight controls with a specified delay and display duration. It's developed in C# and delivered as a Silverlight library.
You can set initial delay, fade-out and display duration properties of a ToolTip.

Introduction
It surprised me that a simple option like setting the display time or the initial delay of a ToolTip is still not possible in Silverlight 3.0, although these properties are present in their WPF counterpart.

Sometimes, you want some custom ToolTip behavior:
for instance, some ToolTips need to persist as long as the control has focus, or others need a specific display duration (for example 10 seconds), or should only show up after an initial delay of 3 seconds.
The default Silverlight setting is a display time of 5 seconds, and then it’s gone until you mouse out and mouse over the control again.

Optionally, you can also set a custom Storyboard that is triggered when a ToolTips opens or closes, using the OpenAnimation and CloseAnimation properties.

Since Silverlight already provides us with a static ToolTipService class that takes care of the basic ToolTip functionality, I thought it was a good idea to extend its behavior a bit.
Initially.
It didn't take me long until I hit some MS internal exceptions.

Features
That’s how I ended up creating the following custom ToolTipService and custom ToolTip class.
It provides new ToolTip behaviors:

you can set persistent ToolTips: duration = until mouse out (DisplayTime = int.MaxValue)
you can specify the amount of seconds the ToolTip should display (DisplayTime property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip opens (OpenAnimation property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip closes (CloseAnimation property)
you can specify an initial delay for the ToolTip (InitialDelay property)
you can databind the ToolTip content

Release
Latest release: Advanced ToolTipService v2.1.0 Notice: the default target runtime is now Silverlight 4 ! The Silverlight 3 compiled version is still available.

How to use
If you download the source code (Advanced ToolTipService v2.1.0), you'll have a demo Silverlight application that explains the use of of this library, both from within XAML and in C# code.
Take a look at the sample application here).

For more documentation on this library, please visit the Documentation tab, or visit my blog for the latest news.

For the moment being, this solution fit’s to provide this behavior.
Ofcourse, if anyone has a better solution for this, please feel free to point us in the right direction with your suggestions and/or remarks.

If you like it, please vote for it on Silverlight Uservoice.

Above all, have fun with Silverlight and wishing you impactful developments!

Updated Wiki: Home

XavierDecoster — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:31:39 GMT

Project Description
This Silverlight ToolTipService makes it easier to set tooltips on Silverlight controls with a specified delay and display duration. It's developed in C# and delivered as a Silverlight library.
You can set initial delay, fade-out and display duration properties of a ToolTip.

Introduction
It surprised me that a simple option like setting the display time or the initial delay of a ToolTip is still not possible in Silverlight 3.0, although these properties are present in their WPF counterpart.

Sometimes, you want some custom ToolTip behavior:
for instance, some ToolTips need to persist as long as the control has focus, or others need a specific display duration (for example 10 seconds), or should only show up after an initial delay of 3 seconds.
The default Silverlight setting is a display time of 5 seconds, and then it’s gone until you mouse out and mouse over the control again.

Optionally, you can also set a custom Storyboard that is triggered when a ToolTips opens or closes, using the OpenAnimation and CloseAnimation properties.

Since Silverlight already provides us with a static ToolTipService class that takes care of the basic ToolTip functionality, I thought it was a good idea to extend its behavior a bit.
Initially.
It didn't take me long until I hit some MS internal exceptions.

Features
That’s how I ended up creating the following custom ToolTipService and custom ToolTip class.
It provides new ToolTip behaviors:

you can set persistent ToolTips: duration = until mouse out (DisplayTime = int.MaxValue)
you can specify the amount of seconds the ToolTip should display (DisplayTime property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip opens (OpenAnimation property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip closes (CloseAnimation property)
you can specify an initial delay for the ToolTip (InitialDelay property)
you can databind the ToolTip content

Release
Latest release: Advanced ToolTipService v2.0.2 Notice: the target runtime is Silverlight 3 !

How to use
If you download the source code (Advanced ToolTipService v2.0.2), you'll have a demo Silverlight application that explains the use of of this library, both from within XAML and in C# code.
Take a look at the sample application here).

For more documentation on this library, please visit the Documentation tab, or visit my blog for the latest news.

For the moment being, this solution fit’s to provide this behavior.
Ofcourse, if anyone has a better solution for this, please feel free to point us in the right direction with your suggestions and/or remarks.

If you like it, please vote for it on Silverlight Uservoice.

Above all, have fun with Silverlight and wishing you impactful developments!

Updated Wiki: Home

XavierDecoster — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:58:43 GMT

Project Description
This Silverlight ToolTipService makes it easier to set tooltips on Silverlight controls with a specified delay and display duration. It's developed in C# and delivered as a Silverlight library.
You can set initial delay, fade-out and display duration properties of a ToolTip.

Introduction
It surprised me that a simple option like setting the display time or the initial delay of a ToolTip is still not possible in Silverlight 3.0, although these properties are present in their WPF counterpart.

Sometimes, you want some custom ToolTip behavior:
for instance, some ToolTips need to persist as long as the control has focus, or others need a specific display duration (for example 10 seconds), or should only show up after an initial delay of 3 seconds.
The default Silverlight setting is a display time of 5 seconds, and then it’s gone until you mouse out and mouse over the control again.

Optionally, you can also set a custom Storyboard that is triggered when a ToolTips opens or closes, using the OpenAnimation and CloseAnimation properties.

Since Silverlight already provides us with a static ToolTipService class that takes care of the basic ToolTip functionality, I thought it was a good idea to extend its behavior a bit.
Initially.
It didn't take me long until I hit some MS internal exceptions.

Features
That’s how I ended up creating the following custom ToolTipService and custom ToolTip class.
It provides new ToolTip behaviors:

you can set persistent ToolTips: duration = until mouse out (DisplayTime = int.MaxValue)
you can specify the amount of seconds the ToolTip should display (DisplayTime property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip opens (OpenAnimation property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip closes (CloseAnimation property)
you can specify an initial delay for the ToolTip (InitialDelay property)
you can databind the ToolTip content

Updated Wiki: Home

XavierDecoster — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:45:39 GMT

Project Description
This Silverlight ToolTipService makes it easier to set tooltips on Silverlight controls with a specified delay and display duration. It's developed in C# and delivered as a Silverlight library.
You can set initial delay, fade-out and display duration properties of a ToolTip.

Introduction
It surprised me that a simple option like setting the display time or the initial delay of a ToolTip is still not possible in Silverlight 3.0, although these properties are present in their WPF counterpart.

Sometimes, you want some custom ToolTip behavior:
for instance, some ToolTips need to persist as long as the control has focus, or others need a specific display duration (for example 10 seconds), or should only show up after an initial delay of 3 seconds.
The default Silverlight setting is a display time of 5 seconds, and then it’s gone until you mouse out and mouse over the control again.

Optionally, you can also set a custom Storyboard that is triggered when a ToolTips opens or closes, using the OpenAnimation and CloseAnimation properties.

Since Silverlight already provides us with a static ToolTipService class that takes care of the basic ToolTip functionality, I thought it was a good idea to extend its behavior a bit.
Initially.
It didn't take me long until I hit some MS internal exceptions.

Features
That’s how I ended up creating the following custom ToolTipService and custom ToolTip class.
It provides new ToolTip behaviors:

you can set persistent ToolTips: duration = until mouse out (DisplayTime = int.MaxValue)
you can specify the amount of seconds the ToolTip should display (DisplayTime property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip opens (OpenAnimation property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip closes (CloseAnimation property)
you can specify an initial delay for the ToolTip (InitialDelay property)
you can databind the ToolTip content

Release
Latest release: Advanced ToolTipService v2.0.2 Notice: the target runtime is Silverlight 3 !

How to use
If you download the source code (Advanced ToolTipService v2.0.2), you'll have a demo Silverlight application that explains the use of of this library, both from within XAML and in C# code.
Take a look at the sample application here).

For more documentation on this library, please visit the Documentation tab.

For the moment being, this solution fit’s to provide this behavior.
Ofcourse, if anyone has a better solution for this, please feel free to point us in the right direction with your suggestions and/or remarks.

If you like it, please vote for it on Silverlight Uservoice.

Above all, have fun with Silverlight and wishing you impactful developments!

Updated Wiki: Home

XavierDecoster — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:36:41 GMT

Project Description
This Silverlight ToolTipService makes it easier to set tooltips on Silverlight controls with a specified delay and display duration. It's developed in C# and delivered as a Silverlight library.
You can set initial delay, fade-out and display duration properties of a ToolTip.

Introduction
It surprised me that a simple option like setting the display time or the initial delay of a ToolTip is still not possible in Silverlight 3.0, although these properties are present in their WPF counterpart.

Sometimes, you want some custom ToolTip behavior:
for instance, some ToolTips need to persist as long as the control has focus, or others need a specific display duration (for example 10 seconds), or should only show up after an initial delay of 3 seconds.
The default Silverlight setting is a display time of 5 seconds, and then it’s gone until you mouse out and mouse over the control again.

Optionally, you can also set a custom Storyboard that is triggered when a ToolTips opens or closes, using the OpenAnimation and CloseAnimation properties.

Since Silverlight already provides us with a static ToolTipService class that takes care of the basic ToolTip functionality, I thought it was a good idea to extend its behavior a bit.
Initially.
It didn't take me long until I hit some MS internal exceptions.

Features
That’s how I ended up creating the following custom ToolTipService and custom ToolTip class.
It provides new ToolTip behaviors:

you can set persistent ToolTips: duration = until mouse out (DisplayTime = int.MaxValue)
you can specify the amount of seconds the ToolTip should display (DisplayTime property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip opens (OpenAnimation property)
you can specify a Storyboard to be triggered when a ToolTip closes (CloseAnimation property)
you can specify an initial delay for the ToolTip (InitialDelay property)
you can databind the ToolTip content

Release
Latest release: Advanced ToolTipService v2.0.1 Notice: the target runtime is Silverlight 3 !

How to use
If you download the source code (Advanced ToolTipService v2.0.1), you'll have a demo Silverlight application that explains the use of of this library, both from within XAML and in C# code.
Take a look at the sample application here).

For more documentation on this library, please visit the Documentation tab.

For the moment being, this solution fit’s to provide this behavior.
Ofcourse, if anyone has a better solution for this, please feel free to point us in the right direction with your suggestions and/or remarks.

If you like it, please vote for it on Silverlight Uservoice.

Above all, have fun with Silverlight and wishing you impactful developments!