“Speech bubble” notifications

Question

I\'m trying to get a notification to pop up something like these bubbles in an MFC application:

Answer 1

It's a standard windows mechanism (since XP), they're called Balloon Tooltips. Depending on where you want to display the balloon, you can use CEdit's ShowBalloonTip method or Shell_NotifyIcon API.

There's NotifyIcon class in Windows Forms, but I don't know about TextBox, you would probably have to use interop.