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David Betz has published the article “Understanding WCF Services in Silverlight 2”. It’s a great discussion on how to access WCF services using Silverlight 2. Here you can learn about various WCF attributes, service and client setup, diverse WCF and Silverlight paradigms and much more.

Jesse Liberty is now ready with the second part of his posts on Silverlight Related Skills. This time he presents a number of advanced techniques that are common with Linq programmers.

Ruurd Boeke is introducing TransitionContentControl. In the post you will see how to write a very simple contentControl, that allows you to transition your old with your new content.

A month ago Jeff Wilcox posted about the managed wrapper for client-side HTML controls used in the Silverlight unit test framework. Those of you who have liked the post will be very happy to learn that now the source is available for download.

At Lee’s Corner you can learn how to customize the tooltip in Silverlight toolkit charts. There you will find the original and the modified code.

Silverlight Girl will teach you how to Obtain cool looking text without embedding fonts in Expression Blend 2.

If you find it really hard to tell when your Silverlight container itself is getting focus (after not having it) or loosing focus, then you better read the article of Tim Greenfield – “GotFocus and LostFocus events on Silverlight containers”.

Here is a discussion with Miguel Castro, Todd Anglin, Shawn Wildermuth, and Steven Smith about The Future of Web Development Panel. It’s recorded live at Devreach in Sofia, Bulgaria. Listen to it now!

Mike Taulty has made a little experiment with Text Animation. Check what has turned out!

Mark Johnson shares his opinion about the Imagine Cup competition and will surely convince you to register for it now.

If you want to add a tooltip to a control you must first check if it allows the ToolTipService namespace. If yes, you can add the tooltip the following way:

Xaml

<Button x:Name="MyButton" Content="Hello!" Width="50" Height="30">

    <ToolTipService.ToolTip>

        <TextBlock x:Name="ToolTip" Text="Click me!"></TextBlock>

    </ToolTipService.ToolTip>

</Button>

C#

ToolTipService.SetToolTip( MyButton, new TextBlock() { Text = "Click me!" } );

You can also use another control instead of TextBlock, for example Image control or Rectangle control.

That's it!
 

This article is compatible with the latest version of Silverlight. 

New information about the tooltip can be found here.

Introduction

The theme of this article is the ToolTip control. It can be very useful as it enhances our application’s user interface.

Using the ToolTip Control

The ToolTipService class must be used along with the ToolTip control in order to display a tooltip to our control.  For the example I will use an image control, but the following can be applied to each of the controls.