Immediate Solutions: Setting the Mouse Pointer in Controls

I'll start off this section by taking a look at a very useful property of the Control class—Cursor. You can use this property to set the mouse cursor type when the mouse moves over a control. (Keep in mind that Windows forms are also derived from the Control class so it works for forms, too.) Just set the Cursor (formerly Mousepointer in VB6 and before) property to one of the values in Table 5.4.

Table 5.4: Mouse cursor options.
Constant	Description
AppStarting	Cursor that is displayed when an application starts.
Arrow	Arrow cursor.
Cross	Crosshair cursor.
Default	Default cursor, usually an arrow cursor.
Hand	Hand cursor, usually used when hovering over a Web link.
Help	Help cursor, a combination of an arrow and a question mark.
HSplit	Cursor that appears when the mouse is positioned over a horizontal splitter bar.
IBeam	I-beam cursor, used to show where the text cursor appears when the mouse is clicked.
No	Cursor that indicates that a particular region is invalid for the current operation.
NoMove2D	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is not moving, but the window can be scrolled in either a horizontal and vertical direction.
NoMoveHoriz	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is not moving, but the window can be scrolled in a horizontal direction.
NoMoveVert	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is not moving, but the window can be scrolled in a vertical direction.
PanEast	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is moving and the window is scrolling horizontally to the right.
PanNE	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is moving and the window is scrolling horizontally and vertically upward and to the right.
PanNorth	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is moving and the window is scrolling vertically in an upward direction.
PanNW	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is moving and the window is scrolling horizontally and vertically upward and to the left.
PanSE	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is moving and the window is scrolling horizontally and vertically downward and to the right.
PanSouth	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is moving and the window is scrolling vertically in a downward direction.
PanSW	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is moving and the window is scrolling horizontally and vertically downward and to the left.
PanWest	Cursor for mouse wheel operations when the mouse is moving and the window is scrolling horizontally to the left.
SizeAll	Four-headed sizing cursor.
SizeNESW	Two-headed diagonal (northeast/southwest) sizing cursor.
SizeNS	Two-headed vertical (north/south) sizing cursor.
SizeNWSE	Two-headed diagonal (northwest/southeast) sizing cursor.
SizeWE	Two-headed horizontal (west/east) sizing cursor.
UpArrow	Up-arrow cursor, usually used to identify an insertion point.
VSplit	Cursor that appears when the mouse is over a vertical splitter bar.
WaitCursor	Wait cursor, usually an hourglass shape.