Tooltip for TextBlock in Silverlight (and any other Silverlight control)

I’ve always been used to “.ToolTip” to add a tool tip text to a control. Unfortunately not all Silverlight controls have such a property.

However, Silverlight does provide a class called “ToolTipService” so you can add a Tooltip to almost all Silverlight UI elements.

You can use the class both in the XAML

   1:  <TextBlock x:Name="txtblkNotification" Text="My Textblock">

   2:      <ToolTipService.ToolTip>

   3:          <ToolTip Content="My tool tip for the TextBlock"></ToolTip>

   4:      </ToolTipService.ToolTip>

   5:  </TextBlock>

Or directly in code

   1:  ToolTipService.SetToolTip(txtblkNotification, "My tool tip for the TextBlock");

I hope someone else finds this useful. (I sure did)