I have a radgrid with a column called 'Note'. I want to display a small note icon if the column has data in it. Then when the user mouseovers the icon, it displays the contents from the 'Note' column.
In order to implement the desired functionality, I suggest that you use the approach from the Tooltipified RadGrid demo and add the images as target controls of the RadToolTipManager:
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