Let's have a TextBox, ToolTip and a FloatingWindow containing the TextBox. The following code snippet will not show a tooltip for the textbox: this.toolTip1.ToolTipTitle = "ToolTip"; string strToolTip = "Exemple"; this.toolTip1.SetToolTip(textBox1, strToolTip); this.toolTip1.AutoPopDelay = 32767; this.toolTip1.Active = true;