how to fix the column width of a listview in c# windows form?

Question

i have a listview i need to fix the column width of the listview so that at run time user cannot drag the columnheaders and resize it.....what is the procedure?? i have searched all the properties but none of them help me out to solve this pbm.. this is possible in gridview but how will it be possible in listview....

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use ColumnWidthChanging event:

private void listView_ColumnWidthChanging(object sender, ColumnWidthChangingEventArgs e)
{
    e.Cancel = true;
    e.NewWidth = listView.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Width;
}

Answer 2

Use ObjectListView. That not only allows individual columns to be fixed width, but to have minimum and maximum widths as well. It does the hard work of catching all cases, including Ctrl-Numpad-+, so that they cannot be circumvented.