So you’ve set the ToolTipText property of a TabPage in a TabControl.  When the user moves the mouse pointer over the tab, the text you specified is supposed to show in a tooltip. 

TabPage ToolTip

But what if the tooltip is not showing?  Fortunately, this problem has an easy solution:

Set the ShowToolTips property in the TabControl to true.

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