Creating tooltip in Compact Framework

Question

I'm trying to create tooltips for form elements (textboxes, etc) in WinCE 5.0 using the Compact Framework 3.5. I believe the functionality is implemented in the OS but not exposed in the managed framework. Any way to create this functionality with P/Invokes?

Answer 1

MSDN covers it fairly thoroughly for native code. You can obviously P/Invoke CreateWindowEx and SHInitExtraControls. From that point on, it's all about using the tool tip messages like TTM_ACTIVATE to control the tip.

It's all very doable, but just looking at the API, I'd guesstimate it's probably a week of work to churn out a managed object model for it.