Showing a tooltip for a MenuItem

Question

I\'ve got a menu that contains, among other things, some most-recently-used file paths. The paths to these files can be long, so the text sometimes gets clipped like \"C:\\

Answer 1

If you are creating your menu items using the System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem class you won't have a "ToolTipText" property.

You should use the System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem class which is new as of .Net Framework 2.0 and DOES include the "ToolTipText" property.

You also have to remember to specify ShowItemToolTips = True on the MenuStrip control