ok, here is what I am seeing:
create a new blank project.
Drop a button on the form, notice that show hint is set to to true as well as parentShowHint.
The forms showhint is also by default set to true. This sounds good, but now put a hint in the hint property of the button.
if I run the simple app no hint is shown. If I then uncheck the parentshowhint and rerun the buttons hint then shows.
If the forms showhint and the buttons showhint and the showparenthint of the button is set to true, no hint is shown.
So if you create a new project, drop a button, add a hint to the button the hint is not show, even though showhint is set by default to true.
I am using the release version as downloaded from the homepage.
I could have swore this was not the behavior before.