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C# - Listview colum header height (Windows Form)

How can I change the height of the column header in a ListView ?

(visual studio-2008,windows forms)

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Anees Avatar asked Oct 11 '10 08:10

Anees


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2 Answers

It is not easy but it can be done.

The basic strategy is to get the underlying header control from the ListView (using LVM_GETHEADER message), setup a NativeWindow instance on that control, and then listen for HDM_LAYOUT messages. In that message, you can specify the location and size of the header.

As the author of ObjectListView mentioned above, I have to say it's much easier to let someone else do all this work for you. ObjectListView uses dynamic header height to allow multiline headers and vertical text, like this:

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Grammarian Avatar answered Sep 30 '22 00:09

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Have a look at ObjectListView it supports a lot of customizations and you might find in there the way how to do it as it is open source.

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Vinzenz Avatar answered Sep 30 '22 00:09

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