ListView Control

The ListView control displays items using one of four different views. You can arrange items into columns with or without column headings as well as display accompanying icons and text.

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The properties, methods and events of the ListView control are described in the following table.

Remarks

With a ListView control, you can organize list entries, called ListItem objects, into one of four different views:

• Large (standard) Icons
• Small Icons
• List
• Report

The View property determines which view the control uses to display the items in the list. You can also control whether the labels associated with items in the list wrap to more than one line using the LabelWrap property. In addition, you can manage how items in the list are sorted and how selected items appear.

The ListView control contains ListItem and ColumnHeader objects. A ListItem object defines the various characteristics of items in the ListView control, such as:

• A brief description of the item.
• Icons that may appear with the item, supplied by an ImageList control.
• Additional pieces of text, called subitems, associated with a ListItem object that you can display in Report view.

You can choose to display column headings in the ListView control using the HideColumnHeaders property. They can be added at both design and run time. At design time, you can use the Column Headers tab of the ListView Control Properties dialog box. At run time, use the Add method to add a ColumnHeader object to the ColumnHeaders collection.