How to: Select an Item in the Windows Forms ListView Control

How to: Select an Item in the Windows Forms Lis...

Windows Forms Programming

This example demonstrates how to programmatically select an item in a Windows Forms ListView control. Selecting an item programmatically does not automatically change the focus to the ListView control. For this reason, you will typically want to call the Focus method when selecting an item.

Example

Visual Basic

me.ListView1.Focus()
me.ListView1.Items(0).Selected = True

this.listView1.Focus();
this.listView1.Items[0].Selected = true;

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This example requires:

A ListView control named listView1 that contains at least one item.
References to the System and System.Windows.Forms namespaces.

Reference

ListView

ListViewItem..::.Selected

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Changing the Focused ListViewItem along with the Selected ListViewItem

Davey Boy Crocky | Edit | Show History

When you set the Selected property to select a ListViewItem like this:

this.listView1.Items[0].Selected = true;

you can end up with one item in the list view selected and another one focused. This can cause strange results when trying to use the arrow keys after programmatically selecting a ListViewItem. To avoid this glitch, use this code:

this.listView1.Items[0].Selected = true;

this.listView1.Items[0].Focused = true;