Loading Cursor From Win32 Resource File In .NET

See the my blog 'Creating a Win 32 Resource DLL' on how to create a C++ resource DLL Using Colored and Animated Cursors
Using legacy plug-ins with .NET - Using LoadLibrary,FreeLibrary and GetProcAdress within .NET to load and use legacy DLLs dynamically. Building Managed Resources from Win32 Resources Using Win32 and Other Libraries - Interop stuff Create Simple Load time DLLs

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Windows.Forms;

class Win32
{
 [DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "LoadCursorFromFileW", 
CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
 public static extern IntPtr LoadCursorFromFile(String str);

 [DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "LoadImageW", 
CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
 public static extern IntPtr LoadImage(IntPtr hinst,
  string lpszName,
  uint uType,
  int cxDesired,
  int cyDesired,
  uint fuLoad);
 public const uint LR_LOADFROMFILE = 16;
 public const uint IMAGE_CURSOR = 2;
}

class CursorLoader
{
 /// <summary>
 /// Load Coloured Cursor from a file. Do not scale the cursor to
 the default size
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="filename"></param>
 /// <returns></returns>
 public static Cursor LoadCursorFromFileUnscaled(string filename)
 {
  IntPtr hCursor;
  Cursor result = null;

  hCursor = Win32.LoadImage(IntPtr.Zero, filename, Win32.IMAGE_CURSOR,
 0, 0, Win32.LR_LOADFROMFILE);
  if (!IntPtr.Zero.Equals(hCursor))
  {
   result = new Cursor(hCursor);
  }
  else
  {
   throw new Exception("Could not create cursor from file "
 + filename);
  }

  return result;
 }
}

To use the method

Cursor XxxCursor = CursorLoader.LoadCursorFromFileUnscaled("Xxx.cur");

This method can be adapted to load other resource types. Just play around with the Win32 'LoadImage' API call.