Windows Forms ToolTip will not re-appear after first use

Question

I have a Windows Forms C# application where I would like to use a tooltip on one of the text boxes. I initialize the tool-tip in the constructor of the Form class, and it wo

Answer 1

I guess you'll be happy to know that Microsoft knows about it...since about 5 years...

• 2/21/2005 Bug acknowledged as reproducable
• 3/29/2005 Hum we might fix it, but later...
• 11/15/2005 Well actually it's not a big bug, and it doesn't happen much, so we won't fix it.

Damn I love it when I stumble on bugs Microsoft doesn't want to solve! This time it's called a corner case, last time it was simply too difficult to resolve...

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/115385/tooltip-stop-showing-after-autopopdelay

I'm off to tell my client that the bugs in my program are just corner cases and too difficult to resolve...