Display custom tooltip as Balloon - winforms

Question

I am using a custom tooltip class in my WinForm application. It works great. But i would like to show it as a Balloon. Here is my code-
class CustomToolTip : ToolTip
{
public CustomToolTip()
{
this.OwnerDraw = true;
this.Popup += new PopupEventHandler(this.OnPopup);
this.Draw += new DrawToolTipEventHandler(this.OnDraw);
}
private void OnPopup(object sender, PopupEventArgs e) // use this event to set the size of the tool tip
{
e.ToolTipSize = new Size(200, 100);
}
private void OnDraw(object sender, DrawToolTipEventArgs e) // use this event to customise the tool tip
{
Graphics g = e.Graphics;
LinearGradientBrush b = new LinearGradientBrush(e.Bounds,
Color.GreenYellow, Color.MintCream, 45f);
g.FillRectangle(b, e.Bounds);
g.DrawRectangle(new Pen(Brushes.Red, 1), new Rectangle(e.Bounds.X, e.Bounds.Y,
e.Bounds.Width - 1, e.Bounds.Height - 1));
g.DrawString(e.ToolTipText, new Font(e.Font, FontStyle.Bold), Brushes.Silver,
new PointF(e.Bounds.X + 6, e.Bounds.Y + 6)); // shadow layer
g.DrawString(e.ToolTipText, new Font(e.Font, FontStyle.Bold), Brushes.Black,
new PointF(e.Bounds.X + 5, e.Bounds.Y + 5)); // top layer
b.Dispose();
}
}
Any suggestion?
Thanking you in anticipation.

Answer 1

You could just draw an ellipse then add a piece to point to the target.
But why not use the default tooltip control.
It has a IsBalloon flag that when set to true looks like this: