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• How do I add subitems to a ListView control?

  Try code such as: ListViewItem item = new ListViewItem("NewItem"); item.SubItems.AddRange( new string[] { "SubItem1", "SubItem2" ) }; listView1.Items.Add( item ); listView1.Items.Add( new ListViewItem( new string[] { "item1"...

• Why doesn't an item in a ListView get selected when I set ListViewItem.Selected to true?

  Make sure the ListView has focus when you set the Selected property. For example, if this code is in the click handler for a button, this button will have the focus, and the selection in the list will fail. Set the focus back to the list before you set...

• How do I programmatically unselect the selected items in a ListView?

  Call the ListView.SelectedItems.Clear method. Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

• How do I programmatically select an item in a ListView?

  To select the i-th item, you can use code such as // Make sure the listview has focus listView1.Focus(); listView1.Items[ i ].Selected = true; Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

• How do I programmatically change the ForeColor and BackColor properties of subitems in a ListView?

  I am trying to programmatically change the ForeColor and BackColor properties of subitems in a ListView. Why doesn't this work? Make sure the item's UseItemStyleForSubItems property is set to false. ListViewItem item1 = new ListViewItem( "item1"...

• How do I implement custom column sorting in a ListView?

  You create a class the implements the IComparer inteface. This interface has a single method that accepts two objects, and returns positive integers if the first object is larger than the second, negative integers if the first object is less than the...

• How do I sort by a column in a ListView?

  See one of these Microsoft step-by-step articles: HOW TO: Sort a ListView Control by a Column in Visual Basic .NET (Article ID: 319399) HOW TO: Sort a ListView Control by a Column in Visual C# .NET (Article ID: 319401) Contributed from George Shepherd's...

• How do I determine which column (subitem) has been clicked in a ListView?

  The attached solution contains both C# and VB.NET projects. The solution use Interop with the LVM_GETSUBITEMRECT window's message to loop through each subitem's bounds rectangle until it finds the one that contains the specified mouse click point...

• How do I use the ListView to display a threaded-style conversation?

  Does the ListView in Whidbey support a display like a threaded conversation, much like Outlook Express does in its news reader? I understand the Listview in Win32 can but has this been exposed in managed code yet? The ListView has a NumIndents property...