Let’s say you want to change the mouse cursor when hovering over a UI element. You can do this directly in the XAML by setting the Cursor property.
For example, if you want to change the cursor to be the Hand     cursor when hovering over a button the XAML you would use would be something like this:

<Canvas >

    <Button Cursor="Hand" Width="100" Height="50" Content="Hover over me"></Button>

</Canvas>

When running the app you would see, as in the screen shot below, the mouse cursor change from the arrow to the hand.

To do this programmatically you could place a MouseEnter and MouseLeave event handler on the button.

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">

    <Canvas >

        <Button x:Name="myButton" MouseEnter="Button_MouseEnter" MouseLeave="Button_MouseLeave" Width="100" Height="50" Content="Hover over me"></Button>

    </Canvas>

</Grid>

Then, in the event handler you could change the cursor this way:

private void Button_MouseEnter(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)

{

    myButton.Cursor = Cursors.Hand;

}

private void Button_MouseLeave(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)

{

    myButton.Cursor = Cursors.Arrow;

}

Silverlight provides the following cursors through the Cursor object:

1. Arrow 
2. Eraser
3. Hand 
4. IBeam
5. SizeNS
6. SizeWE 
7. Stylus
8. Wait

Thank you,
--Mike Snow

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