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.net - How to align right edges of a control and ToolTip Message in C#

I want to display a ToolTip message below a TextBox, but also want them to be right aligned.

I was able to position the ToolTip message at the right edge of the textbox, so I tried to move the message left by message length.

So I tried to get the string length by using TextRenderer.MeasureText(), but the position is a little bit off as shown below.

current result

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   ToolTip myToolTip = new ToolTip();

   string test = "This is a test string.";
   int textWidth = TextRenderer.MeasureText(test, SystemFonts.DefaultFont, textBox1.Size, TextFormatFlags.LeftAndRightPadding).Width;
   int toolTipTextPosition_X = textBox1.Size.Width - textWidth;

   myToolTip.Show(test, textBox1, toolTipTextPosition_X, textBox1.Size.Height);
}

I tried with different flags in the MeasureText() function but it didn't help, and since ToolTip message has a padding, I went for TextFormatFlags.LeftAndRightPadding.

To be clear, this is what I would like to achieve:

desired output

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You can set OwnerDraw property of the ToolTip to true. Then you can control appearance and location of the tooltip in Draw event. In the following example, I've found the tooltip handle and moved it to the desired location using MoveWindow Windows API function :

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("User32.dll")]
static extern bool MoveWindow(IntPtr h, int x, int y, int width, int height, bool redraw);
private void toolTip1_Draw(object sender, DrawToolTipEventArgs e)
{
    e.DrawBackground();
    e.DrawBorder();
    e.DrawText();
    var t = (ToolTip)sender;
    var h = t.GetType().GetProperty("Handle",
      System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance);
    var handle = (IntPtr)h.GetValue(t);
    var c = e.AssociatedControl;
    var location = c.Parent.PointToScreen(new Point(c.Right - e.Bounds.Width, c.Bottom));
    MoveWindow(handle, location.X, location.Y, e.Bounds.Width, e.Bounds.Height, false);
}

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