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Native Tooltips in WPF (Part 2)

View source on GitHub. In part 1 of this article I looked at the differences between WPF tooltips and ‘native’ (Win32) tooltips. In this part I present a sample WPF application that displays native tooltips. I’d planned to walk through some of the code here, but that turned out to be a bit tedious, so […]

Posted byquppa2013-03-27Posted inProgramming, WindowsTags: themes, tooltip, uxtheme, wpfLeave a comment on Native Tooltips in WPF (Part 2)

Native Tooltips in WPF (Part 1)

View source on GitHub. <preamble> One of my hobbies is getting WPF controls to look more like their native counterparts. I’ve been shoehorning the UxTheme APIs (and older equivalents when theming is unavailable) into something that can be used by WPF over the past year or more, and I’ll write about this process at some […]

Posted byquppa2013-03-16Posted inProgramming, WindowsTags: themes, tooltip, uxtheme, wpfLeave a comment on Native Tooltips in WPF (Part 1)