Hi bharath,

Unfortunately I don't think there is an easy way to achieve this behaiour in Silverlight. I have tried another approach - to use SymbolElement for the mouse cursor. The following sample uses 2 MapLayers, one for the open hand and another fot the dragging hand cursor. A single SymbolElement is added in each layer to represent cursor position. On XamMap's MapMouseMove the SymbolElement's SymbolOrigin value is updated. There are a couple of issues although. XamMap's elements cannot be hovered and XamMap's WindowAnimationMode is set to MapWindowAnimationMode.None.

XAML:

<Maps:XamMap x:Name="xamMap" Width="800" Height="600">           
 <Maps:MapNavigationPane igControls:XamDock.Edge="InsideRight" />
 <Maps:XamMap.Layers>
  <Maps:MapLayer Imported="MapLayer_Imported">
   <Maps:MapLayer.Reader>
    <Maps:ShapeFileReader Uri="Shapefiles/world/world"  DataMapping="Caption=CNTRY_NAME"/>
   </Maps:MapLayer.Reader>
  </Maps:MapLayer>            

  <Maps:MapLayer>
   <Maps:MapLayer.ValueTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
     <Image Source="hand1.png">
     </Image>
    </DataTemplate>
   </Maps:MapLayer.ValueTemplate>
  </Maps:MapLayer>

  <Maps:MapLayer>
   <Maps:MapLayer.ValueTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
     <Image Source="hand2.png">
     </Image>
    </DataTemplate>
   </Maps:MapLayer.ValueTemplate>
  </Maps:MapLayer>
 </Maps:XamMap.Layers>
</Maps:XamMap>

Code behind:

public partial class MouseCursorTest : Page
{
 private SymbolElement _hand1;
 private SymbolElement _hand2;
 private SymbolElement _currentHand;
 private double _previousWindowZoom;
 private Point _position;

 public MouseCursorTest()
 {
  InitializeComponent();

  xamMap.WindowAnimationMode = MapWindowAnimationMode.None;

  xamMap.MapMouseMove += (sender, e) =>
  {
   if (_currentHand != null)
   {
    _position = e.Position;

    _currentHand.SymbolOrigin = xamMap.Viewport.RootCanvas.RenderTransform.Inverse.Transform(_position);
   }               
  };                       

  xamMap.WindowRectChanged += (sender, e) =>
          {
           if (_previousWindowZoom == xamMap.WindowZoom)
           {
            xamMap.Layers[1].IsVisible = false;
            xamMap.Layers[2].IsVisible = true;

            _currentHand = _hand2;                                                   
           }
           else
           {
            xamMap.Layers[1].IsVisible = true;
            xamMap.Layers[2].IsVisible = false;

            _currentHand = _hand1;
            _previousWindowZoom = xamMap.WindowZoom;

            _currentHand.SymbolOrigin = xamMap.Viewport.RootCanvas.RenderTransform.Inverse.Transform(_position);  
           }                                               
          };

  xamMap.MapMouseLeftButtonUp += (sender, e) =>
          {
           xamMap.Layers[1].IsVisible = true;
           xamMap.Layers[2].IsVisible = false;

           _currentHand = _hand1;
          };
 }       

 private void MapLayer_Imported(object sender, MapLayerImportEventArgs e)
 {
  if (e.Action == MapLayerImportAction.End)
  {
   var origin = new Point(xamMap.Layers[0].WorldRect.Left + xamMap.Layers[0].WorldRect.Width / 2.0,
           xamMap.Layers[0].WorldRect.Top + xamMap.Layers[0].WorldRect.Height / 2.0);

   _hand1 = new SymbolElement { SymbolOrigin = origin, SymbolType = MapSymbolType.None, IsClickable = false, IsSensitive = false };
   _hand2 = new SymbolElement { SymbolOrigin = origin, SymbolType = MapSymbolType.None, IsClickable = false, IsSensitive = false };

   xamMap.Layers[1].LayerName = "Layer 1";
   xamMap.Layers[1].WorldRect = xamMap.Layers[0].WorldRect;
   xamMap.Layers[1].Elements.Add(_hand1);
   xamMap.Layers[1].IsVisible = false;

   xamMap.Layers[2].LayerName = "Layer 2";               
   xamMap.Layers[2].WorldRect = xamMap.Layers[0].WorldRect;                               
   xamMap.Layers[2].Elements.Add(_hand2);               
   xamMap.Layers[2].IsVisible = false;

   _previousWindowZoom = xamMap.WindowZoom;               
  }
 }
}

Regards,

Ivan Kotev

Please find attached a sample application (). To run it just add Infragistics' dlls. XamMap's WindowAnimationMode is left to its default value.

Please let me know if that works for you.

Regards,

Ivan Kotev