VisualTips
Version 1.0 R3
Release date: December 3, 2010
- FIXED: Crash when using VisualTips under .NET 4 on Windows 7.
- CHANGED: Dropped support for .NET 1.0 (minimum requirement is now .NET 1.1).
Version 1.0 R2
Release date: March 14, 2008
- FIXED: VisualTips is now 64-bit compatible.
- ADDED: VisualTipProvider.DisplayPosition determines where a tip is displayed by default.
- ADDED: VisualTipProvider.DisplayAtMousePosition Tips will not overlap a components bounding rectangle.
- ADDED: Added a GetBounds method to IVisualTipExtender to determine the bounding rectangle of a component.
Version 1.0 R1
Release date: July 21, 2007
- FIXED: Tips now display properly when running as a Standard User under Window Vista.
Version 1.0
Release date: April 24, 2007
Version 0.9 R1 Beta
Release date: February 1, 2007
- ADDED: The Active property determines whether a tip is automatically displayed or not.
- ADDED: The TitleImage property allows images to be displayed beside the title text on a tip.
- ADDED: VisualTipProvider.ShowNotifyTip provides a simple way to display a notification balloon without
using an instance of VisualTipProvider.
- CHANGED: The Active property of VisualTipProvider has been replaced with DisplayMode, which
offers additional ways to display tips. This is a breaking change; DisplayMode.MouseHover replaces Active=True, and DisplayMode.Manual replaces
Active=False.
- ADDED: IsTipDisplayed property.
- ADDED: TitleImage property.
- CHANGED: The overloads for ShowTip have been replaced with methods which support
the new VisualTipDisplayOptions enumeration.
- ADDED: VisualTipBalloonRenderer renders tips in the style of a Windows XP notification balloon.
- CHANGED: Renamed the XP-color VisualTipOfficeRenderer presets (Blue, Green, and Silver) to XPBlue, XPGreen, and XPSilver.
- FIXED: Localization support under Visual Studio 2005.
- The documentation has been improved, and the sample application is updated to demonstrate the new features.
Version 0.9 Beta
Release date: December 7, 2006