How to detect if the mouse is inside the whole form and child controls?

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You can hook the main message loop and preprocess/postprocess any (WM_MOUSEMOVE) message what you want.

public class Form1 : Form {
    private MouseMoveMessageFilter mouseMessageFilter;
    protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) {
        base.OnLoad( e );

        this.mouseMessageFilter = new MouseMoveMessageFilter();
        this.mouseMessageFilter.TargetForm = this;
        Application.AddMessageFilter(this.mouseMessageFilter);
    }

    protected override void OnClosed(EventArgs e) {
        base.OnClosed(e);
        Application.RemoveMessageFilter(this.mouseMessageFilter);
    }

    private class MouseMoveMessageFilter : IMessageFilter {
        public Form TargetForm { get; set; }

        public bool PreFilterMessage( ref Message m ) {
            int numMsg = m.Msg;
            if ( numMsg == 0x0200 /*WM_MOUSEMOVE*/)
                this.TargetForm.Text = string.Format($"X:{Control.MousePosition.X}, Y:{Control.MousePosition.Y}");

            return false;
        }
    }
}

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