Newline/LineBreak not working with ToolTipService.ToolTip

[Scott]

So I'm using Silverlight 4 and I've got the following GridViewColumn:

<telerik:GridViewColumn
    UniqueName="CreditIssuesText"
    CellStyle="{StaticResource rgvCellStyle}"
    HeaderCellStyle="{StaticResource rgvHeaderCellStyle}"
    HeaderTextAlignment="Center"
    TextAlignment="Center"
    Width="Auto">
    <telerik:GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <Image
                Source="/HubSilverlight;component/Images/status_icon_info.png"
                ToolTipService.ToolTip="{Binding CreditIssuesText}"
                Visibility="{Binding CreditIssuesText, Converter={StaticResource TextToVisibilityConverter}}"
                Width="16"
                Height="16" />
        </DataTemplate>
    </telerik:GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
</telerik:GridViewColumn>

CreditIssuesText is being pulled from our SQL Server where a function concatenates all of the possible credit issues and joins them together with line breaks to be used in a tooltip when hovering over the icon.

I've already tried everything in http://stackoverflow.com/q/183406/682480 to no avail.

• &#0a;
  
• &#0d;
  
• &#0a;&#0d;
  
• 

  
• 
  
• 

  
• <br />
  
• <LineBreak />
  
• \n
  
• \r\n

How in the world do I get a line break or newline to work in a bound string that's being pulled from SQL?

[Yoan]

Hello Scott,

I have tried the approach from the mentioned Stackoverflow thread and it works as expected. I have attached my test project for a reference. Moreover, I have applied the approach from this MSDN thread as well. 

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Yoan
Telerik

[Scott]

Your solution uses Silverlight 5 whereas in my post I said I was using Silverlight 4.  I'm not sure if there would be a difference or not, but I can't open a Silverlight 5 solution.

[Scott]

I was able to solve my issue.

In our SQL database, we store line breaks as \n. I have no idea why or how, but somewhere between the time the data was retrieved from SQL via our WCF service and the time the data was bound to the GridView, the tooltip string was being modified.  All of the \n line breaks were being escaped changing them to \\n.

What I ended up doing to resolve the issue was make a simple converter that replaced \\n with Environment.NewLine. 

To see my full solution along with 2 other problems I ran into afterwards and their solutions, take a look at my accepted answer to this same question I created on StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/q/21142069/682480

[Yoan]

Hello Scott,

I am glad to hear that you have resolved the issue. 

Thank you for sharing the solution with the community.


Regards,
Yoan
Telerik