How to hide mouse cursor while typing in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

Has anyone managed to find a workaround solution to Visual Studio doesn't hide the mouse cursor while typing?

I use both mouse and keyboard while coding. I must say this bug drives me insane since it has a strong impact on Intellisense, forcing popups to blink in and out of existence as I type simply because I have the mouse cursor placed on an identifier. It also affects third-party tools like Devexpress CodeRush or, I suspect, JetBrains ReSharper.

The typical working pattern for someone like me that uses both the mouse and keyboard while coding, involves using the mouse as a quick navigation tool inside the source file. Exactly for this reason we often click locations in code that contain identifiers. On the other hand, the cursor may be far away from one, but if my typing invariably ends up putting an identifier next to the mouse cursor, again intellisense (or third-party tools similar features) snap into existence, blinking in and out as I type; for a very annoying effect.

Answer 1

Like you, I've had this problem forever. So I have written a little script that hides the mouse cursor no matter what Windows application you are using.

Note that if you run Visual Studio (or anything) in elevated mode, you'll need to run my utility also in elevated mode.

You can find it here