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

For what it's worth, I was having this problem on my Windows XP system until I noticed that if I placed at least one tooltip control on my form manually (from the toolbox) I could create as many tooltips as needed within my code, and they would all work.

If, however, I tried to create all tooltips in code (say for instance in the formload event) the tips would only show once and never to be seen again. I can't give you the exact "why this happens" story, but I have duplicated this issue several times always with the same effect. It might have something to do with the object scope, but I'm not sure.

So now just as a habit, I always include at least one Visual Studio tooltip control and then the rest within my code.