Monday 1 June 2009

Dynamically display tooltips when mouse hover a DataGridViewCell in WinForm application

In one of my recent projects, a customer asked me to provide a dynamic tool tip depending on the DataGridViewCell that user have his mouse hovered. For a Windows Forms DataGridView, you can handle the dataGridView1.CellToolTipTextNeeded event and dynamically provide the tip text there.

dataGridView1.CellToolTipTextNeeded += new DataGridViewCellToolTipTextNeededEventHandler(data GridView1_CellToolTipTextNeeded);
void dataGridView1_CellToolTipTextNeeded(object sender, DataGridViewCellToolTipTextNeededEventArgs e)
{
e.ToolTipText = string.Format("tip for row {0}, col {1}", e.RowIndex, e.ColumnIndex);
}

Run the application, you would see a similar screen shot as below:

2 comments:

  1. Very nice simple and easy.But will this be the same for webapplication also for gridview . If not can u tell me how pls.

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