Sometimes, your end-users aren’t the smartest creatures on the planet. Lots of times, I am talking to an end-user because there is a “bug” or “critical issue” that needs to be fixed right away.
During the “debug” session (read: using the software as the end-user has described), you hit a lot of key strokes and other useful shortcuts that I thought the user was already familiar with. Unfortunately, most of the time, they are not.
Therefore, the Tip of the Day window is a great way of showing the end-user some handy tips when they start your software. For example, to learn about shortcuts, “hidden” features and more. The window of this post just does that:
The window is really easy to use, you will just need to call the following code in the startup (or any location you like) of your software:
TipOfTheDayWindow tipOfTheDayWindow = new TipOfTheDayWindow();
if (tipOfTheDayWindow.HasTipsToShow)
{
tipOfTheDayWindow.ShowDialog();
}
You must be thinking: why a blog post for such an easy window? Well, because this “Tip of the Day” window has much more features than you can see on first sight. For example, did you ever think on how to enter or manage the tips? Well, this window takes care of that for you.
Simply hit CTRL + F2 when the “Tip of the Day” window is focused, and you will see the following edit mode:
With the included editor, you can simply create, modify, remove and preview all the tips that are included with the window. The tips are stored in xml format in a subdirectory “Help”.
Don’t wait too long, start using the “Tip of the Day” window today!
TipOfTheDayWindow.zip (295.57 kb) [Downloads: 315]
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