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Hourglass Mouse Cursor Always Changes Back to its Original Image. How?

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5 Jan 2011CPOL1 min read 18.7K   1  
This topic is also covered by the RAII topic as described in RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization) C# Helper Classes[^].Applying the RAII pattern results in more expressive code:using (new RAIIGuard(()=>owner.Cursor, c=>owner.Cursor = c)){ owner.Cursor =...

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21 Dec 2010Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2 alternatives  
IDisposable with “using” block helps in all cases
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28 Dec 2010SergeyT2
With System.Windows.Forms it's not necessary to pass the owner. You can use static property Cursor.Current.I use the following class in my projects:public sealed class WaitCursor : IDisposable{ private Cursor _SavedCursor; public WaitCursor() { _SavedCursor =...

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