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Adding a ToolTip to a Picture Control in VB.Net

So here is a quick one. I was recently developing a small application written in VB.Net and went to add a tool tip to a picture control displaying the Windows UAC Shield but found that I couldn’t.  So after a litle poke around I found that I could initialise the ToolTip method and apply to the control that I wanted.  The following snippet is assigning the tooltip to my picture control (in this case picShield):

Dim tt As New ToolTip()
tt.SetToolTip(picShield, "Requires Administrative Privilages")

The above will then attach itself at run time to the control you specify and instance a Tool Tip for it.

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