Comments on: Editing a ToolTip Style in Blend 3

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Gayle Lorenz — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:13:14 +0000

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By: Steve Haroz

Steve Haroz — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:37:44 +0000

Important Note: This does NOT work in WPF. Silverlight only!
Hopefully, Blend 4 will support Tooltip styles for WPF and make it a little more designer friendly.

Great post though!

By: Rost Resh

Rost Resh — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:02:51 +0000

Same situation : ‘InvalidOperationException: ‘ToolTip’ cannot have a logical or visual
parent.”

By: Bill Lefler

Bill Lefler — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:25:55 +0000

Following these instructions just gets me a ‘InvalidOperationException: ‘ToolTip’ cannot have a logical or visual parent.”I get this on a new WPF project created in Blend adding the tooltip to a Button in the Window. This is on Blend 3.

By: NewsPeeps

NewsPeeps — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:50:45 +0000

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By: Joel Cochran

Joel Cochran — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:03:45 +0000

Hi Mason,For complex controls (in WPF), if you want to start with a copy of their Templates, try using the “Simple Styles” versions. In Blend 3, go to the Asset Manager, drop down “Styles”, and select “Simple Styles”. This will give you a list of controls that have all their counterparts’ functionality but simplified parts to re-template.

By: Mason Brown

Mason Brown — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:15:05 +0000

Thanks Corey. This helped me out today. However, the design view of the different tooltip states is a little funky. What you see on the stage looks very different from what get’s published. Not very designer friendly.PS. I need a tutorial post on skinning a combo box. It should be a simple task, but it also requires a convoluted manual approach in order to get Blend to produce what I want. Simple UI elements like tooltips and comboboxes should be intuitive and fairly easy for noobs (like me) to figure out.