How to set tooltips on ListView Subitems in .Net

Question

I am trying to set the tool tip text for some of my subitems in my listview control. I am unable to get the tool tip to show up.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you set ShowItemTooltips for the ListView control in "details" mode and do nothing else, the ListView control will automatically provide tooltips for items and subitems that exceed their column's widths. This turns out to work even if the FullRowSelect property is set to true. If ToolTipText has been set for a ListViewItem and FullRowSelect is true, then the tooltip will appear for the whole row; that's the case where tooltips won't be displayed for subitems.