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ListView Control - Introduction

Introduction

The list view control is basically and advanced ListBox. This control allows you to add rows of data, but it also supports large and small icons, multiple columns, automatic label edit, column re-order, hot-tracking, the four main modes that you see in explorer:

Icon - Displays items with large icons and your main text
Small Icon - Displays items with small icons and your main text
List - Displays items with your main text
Detail - Displays items with small icons, your main text, and any other data to be displayed in columns.

and much more!

The list view control comes with all editions of Visual Basic, except the standard version.

To add a list view control to your project, goto Project|Components. Now scroll down to Microsoft Common Controls and check the box next to it. Click OK. You will now see a number of new controls added to your toolbox. The ListView icon looks like this:

James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.

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  • Re: [74] ListView Control

    Posted by SeanH on 14 Nov 2007

    How to sort a ListView control? Here is the code I have written to handle just that. This code also includes a context menu of items I found I needed on almost every ListView I used (I use them alo...

  • Re: [74] ListView Control

    Posted by SeanH on 14 Nov 2007

    [quote user="Maxjonz"]

    I found that the following code didn't work for me


    ListView1.ListItems.Remove(ListView1.SelectedItem) '// removes the selected item...

  • Re: [74] ListView Control

    Posted by anatha1 on 10 Aug 2007

    Hey everyone here are some example of Database that use ListView:


    if u need in C# pls copy this code convert to C# your self.



    1. Use Microsoft Access Database

    ...

  • Re: [74] ListView Control

    Posted by Halina on 08 Aug 2007

    Hi..


    I using ListView in C#.


    I tried to add text into certain colum in ListView.


    For example: I have 3 columns, Column1, Column2, Column3.


    I want to insert "TEST1"&n...

  • Re: [74] ListView Control

    Posted by Maxjonz on 05 Jul 2007

    I found that the following code didn't work for me


    ListView1.ListItems.Remove(ListView1.SelectedItem) '// removes the selected item


    I had t...