When Visual Studio does not have input focus, you can move the mouse over a tool strip item and you will see the tool tip text. A single click invokes the intended action. In my .net forms app, I have a tool strip with some items. Hovering the mouse shows my tool tip whether my app has focus or not. But if I don't have focus, it takes to clicks to invoke the intended action (one to activate/gain focus, and one to invoke the action). Except for this one vs two clicks issue, my tool strip behaves identically to VS. What is the proper way to get the same response as VS? I have seen some web pages describing various ways, but they look clunky and out of date.