Un-Antialiased Hand Cursor in Windows Forms Apps!

Question

Okay, so you know how in Windows Vista and Windows 7 MS changed the Hand Cursor (the one that shows up when you hover over a hyperlink), and added more detail to it so it\'s

Answer 1

Excuse me for resurrecting a year-old thread!!!

After messing around with the original solution and taking a look at the reflected LinkLabel source code, I "finally" found a quick yet clean way of doing it :

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace System.Windows.Forms {
    public class LinkLabelEx : LinkLabel {
        private const int IDC_HAND = 32649;

        [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
        private static extern IntPtr LoadCursor(IntPtr hInstance, int lpCursorName);

        private static readonly Cursor SystemHandCursor = new Cursor(LoadCursor(IntPtr.Zero, IDC_HAND));

        protected override void OnMouseMove(MouseEventArgs e) {
            base.OnMouseMove(e);

            // If the base class decided to show the ugly hand cursor
            if(OverrideCursor == Cursors.Hand) {
                // Show the system hand cursor instead
                OverrideCursor = SystemHandCursor;
            }
        }
    }
}

This class actually does what we want: It shows the proper system hand cursor without flickering and does this only on the LinkArea of the control.