VS2010 MPF: Formatting QuickInfo text

Question

Good morning (or afternoon),

I've had the request come up the chain to format the QuickInfo text so that the metadata is bold.  I can't see of a way of doing this, since it doesn't look like formatting of the QuickInfo text is supported (it's a simple string being returned).  Am I correct in my assumption that formatting is not currently supported for the QuickInfo tool tip?

Thanks,

Giawa

Answer 1

Please refer to the following link which tells about “BoldLetters in QuickInfo”

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/96132669-9cd7-4dcd-bdf8-04ad80f8e4f0

Answer 2

Hi Breathfish,

Ya, I noticed that posting earlier, but it wasn't very helpful for MPF.  I'll mark your post as the answer, since I suppose that topic does give information on the IVsTipWindow interface, which looks scary to implement in managed code.  Perhaps one day I'll look into this further, but I guess I'll stick with the default implementation for now.  I was hoping there was some way that Visual Studio could pull this off for me with special text identifiers or something.

Cheers,

Giawa