I am able to create a balloon tooltip from the systray of my application. The problem is that the message displayed by the tooltip is a maximum of 256 characters. I need the maximum to either be unlimited, or much bigger than 256 characters. Can anyone help me on how to do this? I saw a possible answer when searching the forums but it had a link to someone else's code that was copyrighted.. I don't want to use anyones code that is copyrighted.. Also: I am using a method that is before the supposed .NET 2.0 SDK tooltip handling because for some reason, even though I have .NET 2.0 SDK installed, I can't seem to access any of the balloon tooltip controls that it is supposed to have.. Any help anyone can give on this issue would be .. helpful