How do I keep Visual Studio from autoraising, when I activate “Focus Follows Mouse”?

Question

I'm running VS2008 and have used SystemParametersInfo to activate "Focus Follows Mouse" and "Do not Raise On Focus." Sadly though, VS2008 (with and without SP1) doesn't honour the "Do not Raise" part and eagerly pushes into the foreground every time the pointer touches its window.

A while ago I complained about that on my blog and posted an example app to set the parameters. Two others also reported having that problem, but they too didn't know how to proceed.

How could I fix/workaround this problem? Anything else I should try?

Answer 1

Try true X-mouse. At least visual studio won't steal the focus anymore. You might not like the copy-and-past behaviour it introduces, though, and also pop-up windows usually don't appear in visual studio (use alt-tab to find them).

Answer 2

I've noticed that Visual Studio only seems to auto-raise when a "document" has focus in VS. If you select a Find Results window or the Solution Explorer in VS, then the auto-raise doesn't occur.