creating a tip balloon over a control on hover? - vb.net

I simply want when someone hovers his mouse over a checkbox a "tip balloon" to appear describing what the control does?
How can this be done?
Using VB.NET with Visual Studio 2010.

Drag a ToolTip control from the toolbox on the left onto your form (the designer will then put it below your form, since it's not meant to be visible normally). By default it will be named "tooltip1".
Then select your checkbox and go over to its properties window. You should see a property labeled "Tooltip on tooltip1" - set this to whatever you want. When you run the app and hold the mouse over your checkbox, you should see the tooltip text.

For WinForms, see Display a tooltip over a button using Windows Forms, or briefly stated...
Drag in a ToolTip.
this.toolTip1.SetToolTip(this.targetControl, "My Tool Tip")
For WPF:
<Button>Click Me
<Button.ToolTip>
<ToolTip>Blob of text.
</ToolTip>
</Button.ToolTip>
</Button>

tooltip1.show("Your text", then your control)

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Thank you all.
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How to use tooltip bootstrap in vb.net?

I'm working on project and I want to put a balloon tooltip like (html5) design on each textbox or another control
Here's an example:
I assume you're working in a Windows Forms project. To add Tooltips controls have to use the ToolTip class.
You can add design-time control from the toolbox of Visual Studio. In this way the properties of each control, you will see a new property called ToolTip in which you can set the text you want to appear.
Another option is acerlo for programming, creating an instance of the ToolTip class.
More information:
ToolTip Class

vb.net textbox that won't let me highlight text

I'm working on an upgrade of a VB6 winforms project to VB.Net 2.0. On one form (and only this one form, out of about 25), my text boxes are acting odd.
When a user clicks into (focuses on) a textbox with a value in it, the cursor automatically goes to the beginning (left side) of the textbox and can only be moved with the keyboard arrow keys. I can't re-position the cursor with the mouse, and I can't highlight a section of text with the mouse.
The text box is not readonly and is both visible and enabled. In fact all settings are default as I've dragged out a new textbox and added it to the form and I get the same behavior.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
OK, here is answer:
The startup form was set as an MdiContainer. This form had a split panel container that held another form for Application controls in panel 1 and the working forms in panel 2. When the working forms were loaded into panel 2, they weren't allowed to be top level as there was a .Parent attribute set to the split container panel 2. For some reason, the highlighting of text in a text box is disallowed unless the textbox is on a top level form, and since we couldn't get the working form to top level, we couldn't highlight the text. For reference, check this out.

Is it possible to make a statusbar like notepad in VB?

I made a notepad using vb 2008 and I am facing a problem who I'd make the Statusbar.
any idea will be great.
Note: I am using the Textbox to read and write text
Thank you
You need to add a StatusStrip control to your form.
To find it, open the Toolbox, expand the "Menus & Toolbars" section, and double-click on the one named "StatusStrip".
Double-clicking on the control in the Toolbox will automatically add it to your form, and dock it along the bottom, just like it is in Notepad.
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VB.NET - Ribbon Shows Black Area

I need help with my vb.net program. I've added a ribbon bar to the top of my main form using the DotNetBar and the problem is that it shows a black rectangle area instead of the default blue color. This only happens when I am using Windows 7 aero and is not maximized.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Just a guess, but it looks like DotNetBar is meant to be used without the standard Form chrome. Try setting your form's border style to None.
Also, make sure you're following the directions and using a DotNetBar form control:
http://www.devcomponents.com/kb2/?p=703
Hope this helps!