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Force Windows Forms (Winforms) toolstrip tooltip to refresh or hide immediately using C#

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If you are using the tooltip text on a ToolStrip control you may find that the control does not update the tooltip immediately and the tooltip may not hide when you start a long running process leaving the tooltip stuck on the screen. The toolstrip actually has a tooltip control under the hood which you can access with reflection. Calling RemoveAll on the tooltip control will immediately remove all tooltips. https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.tooltip.removeall /// <summary> /// Occurs when the user clicks the toolstrip button. /// </summary> /// <param name=" sender "> The control that raised the event. </param> /// <param name=" e "> The event arguments. </param> private void ToolStripButton_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) {      ToolTip toolTip = ( ToolTip )toolStrip.GetType().GetProperty( "ToolTip" , System.Reflection. BindingFlags .NonPublic | System.Reflection. BindingFlags .I...

SOLVED: How to change your Ramblers primary group membership to Hike Oxfordshire.

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If you are a Ramblers member and want to change your primary Ramblers group to Hike Oxfordshire you can do this easily on the Ramblers web site. Go to the Ramblers site. https://www.ramblers.org.uk/ Click "Sign in" in the header. Scroll down and select "My Groups". You'll see your curernt group. If this isn't the current group you can click the "Chagne Ramblers Group" button. Here you can select the area as "Oxfordshire" adn the ramblers group as "Hike Oxfordshire", then click "Confirm selection". If you have any issue you can also contact the Ramblers here: https://www.ramblers.org.uk/contact-us .