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How To Edit Items in a Windows Forms ListView

As I was finishing off the previous blog item on the Windows Forms ListView, it occurred to me that there isn't much documentation around to explain how to edit the ListView items. So I thought it might be useful to cover a couple of approaches in this blog. If you're disappointed that there...

Posted to Ged Mead's Blog by XTab on 10-29-2009
Filed under: Filed under: ListView, Visual Basic, Windows Forms
Populating a WinForms ListView from a Text File

The Windows Forms ListView is designed to display data. You can use a simple text file as the data source of a Windows Forms ListView. Let's start with a scenario where you have a txt file that contains the data. Each line of the text file represents one row of data to be displayed in the ListView...

Posted to Ged Mead's Blog by XTab on 10-25-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Forms, ListView, File, Visual Basic, Read, Write
WPF ValueConverter Using Enumeration and Image Paths

In the previous blogs on ValueConverters - here and here - the conversion was from Integer type to Brush. In this blog I will cover the situation where you want to include a small image or icon in the ListView. There are various alternatives here. You could hard code the image path into the collection...

Posted to Ged Mead's Blog by XTab on 09-22-2009
Filed under: Filed under: WPF, .NET, ListView, Visual Basic, DataBinding, ValueConverter, Enumeration
How To Insert Row Divider Lines in a WPF ListView

If you have read any of my previous ListView blogs, you will know that formatting the ListView is mostly a matter of creating templates and styles for the various sub-elements. The same applies if you want to do something to differentiate one row from another. For instance, you might to have horizontal...

Posted to Ged Mead's Blog by XTab on 09-20-2009
Filed under: Filed under: WPF, ListView, Visual Basic
More Complex Conversions with the WPF MultiBinding Converter

In the previous blog , I created a simple ValueConverter that analyzed the data bound values and set the Foreground color of a TextBlock based on whether the value was less or more than a cut off value of 200 units. In reality, these preset values (such as the 200 in that demonstration) are rarely that...

Posted to Ged Mead's Blog by XTab on 09-20-2009
Filed under: Filed under: WPF, ListView, VB.NET, Visual Basic, DataBinding, ValueConverter, Visual Basic MultiBinding
Using a ValueConverter in WPF

The Story So Far Each of my previous blog items on WPF ListViews has mostly used a collection of DrinkProduct objects as the data source. This collection is bound to the Window via a DataContext and the individual columns are bound to fields in the collection. (As an alternative, this blog looked at...

Posted to Ged Mead's Blog by XTab on 09-20-2009
Filed under: Filed under: WPF, ListView, VB.NET, Visual Basic, DataBinding, ValueConverter
WPF ListView - Formatting Rows

By the end of the previous blog item on the topic of the WPF ListView, the ListView looked like this: In this blog I want to look at ways of changing the look of the rows. You may, for example, want to assign a background color to the rows. And based on what we have done so far, you might be tempted...

Posted to Ged Mead's Blog by XTab on 09-07-2009
Filed under: Filed under: WPF, ListView, Style, Visual Basic, Resources, DataBinding, DataTemplate
WPF ListView Column and Cell Formatting

In the first WPF ListView blog of this set, I used XML data binding and added some basic formatting to the Column Headers of the ListView. In the previous blog , a collection of objects was used as the data source. The formatting in that second example was a bit plain. So, in this blog I will look at...

Posted to Ged Mead's Blog by XTab on 09-03-2009
Filed under: Filed under: WPF, ListView, Visual Basic
WPF ListView: DataBinding and Column Headers

A recent question on VBCity came from a developer who was searching for a way of changing the background color, font and border of the Column Headers in a ListView. This has always been a particularly tough call in Windows Forms. (A DataGridView, on the other hand, does have this feature, so that might...

Posted to Ged Mead's Blog by XTab on 08-22-2009
Filed under: Filed under: WPF, ListView, Visual Basic
Copying An Item Between ListViews

I've always found ListViews quite fascinating. Slightly confusing sometimes, but fascinating nevertheless. As I have often been heard to say, it's the little things that'll trip you up. Take, for instance, the subject of this blog - copying an item between ListViews. The scenario is that...

Posted to Ged Mead's Blog by XTab on 03-23-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Controls, ListView, Visual Basic

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