C# tool tip Addin

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hi i want to develop an addin to Visual studio in c# to display a tool tip text when the cursor lands on a particular text..

ex- if there is a line called Hello i want it to popup a tool tip "hello world " when i land the mouse cursor on it please help me out

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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Visual Studio 2010 addin writing articles/tutorials?

Rather than just ask how to do an entire task, ask a specific question about a problem you're having doing it. There are lots of tutorials around on how to make a VS2010 addin (or any other version). Start coding one and see where the problems end up coming from.

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answered Nov 23 '10 at 05:58

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Thanks paul...but the problem is whether an addin would help me to do that or do i need package or something – Bhashana Nov 23 '10 at 06:10

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '10 at 08:27

If you mean the text cursor, then this is possible with an add-in. In fact, it's quite easy. Just handle TextDocumentKeyPressEvents. There's also a complete add-in example in that article.

If you mean hovering a text with the mouse pointer, there's no direct support for it in add-in. You would need to use some global mouse events handler and manually retrieve the text under the pointer. Or, I believe, VS packages have better support for such tasks.

C# tool tip Addin

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