Question

I am writing an application that I am working on a skinning feature to it. What I want to do is allow a user to create an XML document that my code will parse through and set properties of the controls on a form. This is the easy part. Where I am stuck is giving the user a way to find out the control names/types with minimal coding/documentation effort.

My idea was to have a tool tip that when they moused over a control, it got the name of the control and type to show. Anyone know of a way to do this? I was thinking something like how Spy++ can find control, but I want to get the .NET properties also.

If someone has another idea I’m open ears.

Thanks Much.

Answer 1

You’ll need to set up some ToolTip objects (one for each field), looping through all of the controls in your form to obtain the text for each tooltip.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.tooltip.aspx