I originally started this post with a title of “WPF ToolTip Child Element Visibility Based on the Parent of the ToolTip IsEnabled Property… and you are not it with a dirty dirty dish rag on your toe reading behind a dirty magazine”, but I decided that in the best interest of my sanity (read: “what [...]

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I’m a big fan of the Office 2007 style tooltips and one of the areas where I feel .NET lets me down a little is in the ToolTip department.
Here’s the default .NET ToolTip:

Now take a look at the following ToolTips:

Not only do they look much better, but they also provide some very needed features.

Each ToolTip [...]

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I know this has been covered on other sites but I thought I would post it here for the benefit of our readers.  Why would you want to do this?  Well, because Notepad that comes with Windows is, well, if you’ve used it then you know what it’s like and have probably moved on to something [...]

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Here’s a quick tip I found out about the other day from a fellow co-worker:
You can drag and drop a single file or folder onto the command prompt and it will paste the path automatically. This saves time compared to the old-fashioned way of selecting the address bar, copying, then right-clicking on the command prompt [...]

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Now first thing’s first…why would you want to do this?  Well if any of you have booted to VistaPE or Vista you will have noticed the tastefully bland boot screen that is mostly empty except for a wonderful leprechaun green status bar that doesn’t even really show a status at all (as if a bar [...]

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