Recently I was asked to make a ToolTip that now only followed the Thumb of the Slider but also showed the value of what the slider was (see image above). I thought about this and I came up with a pretty quick solution. There may be other ways to do it but watch the short 1o minute video to see how I did it.
LawBot designed a new ToolTip example with easing functionality.
A lot of the samples I see for this new technology tend to focus on using slider controls but I just don’t have a need for sliders most of the time (although it certainly depends upon what type of application you’re building). Here’s a simple yet effective way to leverage element to element binding for tooltips. I currently have a ComboBox control with a data template and want to show a description of the selected item as the user mouses over the control. With Silverlight 2 you’d have to write code since there wouldn’t be a way for the tooltip service to bind to the selected item declaratively.