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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... Posted Oct 29 2009, 12:52 PM by XTab with | with no comments 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... Posted Oct 25 2009, 05:20 PM by XTab with | with no comments 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... Posted Sep 23 2009, 03:08 AM by XTab with | with 1 comment(s) 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... Posted Sep 21 2009, 07:24 AM by XTab with | with no comments 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... Posted Sep 20 2009, 04:14 PM by XTab with | with 3 comment(s) 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... Posted Sep 20 2009, 03:29 PM by XTab with | with 3 comment(s) 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... Posted Sep 07 2009, 06:31 PM by XTab with | with 1 comment(s) 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... Posted Sep 03 2009, 01:52 PM by XTab with | with 4 comment(s) 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... Posted Aug 22 2009, 06:29 PM by XTab with | with 5 comment(s) 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... Posted Mar 23 2009, 01:39 PM by XTab with | with no comments Filed under: Controls, ListView, Visual Basic