How to make a child node visible = false in a Treeview Control

Question

I'm having a windows form with a tree view control. This tree view has a Root node and 2 child nodes. My requirement is i need to hide the first child node. Is it possible to make visible false that particular child nod

Answer 1

Yes you could inherit from tree node and create your own behaviour. Like so.

public class RootNode : TreeNode
{
    public List<ChildNode> ChildNodes { get; set; }

    public RootNode()
    {
        ChildNodes = new List<ChildNode>();
    }

    public void PopulateChildren()
    {
        this.Nodes.Clear();

        var visibleNodes = 
            ChildNodes
            .Where(x => x.Visible)
            .ToArray();

        this.Nodes.AddRange(visibleNodes);
    }

    //you would use this instead of (Nodes.Add)
    public void AddNode(ChildNode node)
    {
        if (!ChildNodes.Contains(node))
        {
            node.ParentNode = this;
            ChildNodes.Add(node);
            PopulateChildren();
        }
    }

    //you would use this instead of (Nodes.Remove)
    public void RemoveNode(ChildNode node)
    {
        if (ChildNodes.Contains(node))
        {
            node.ParentNode = null;
            ChildNodes.Remove(node);
            PopulateChildren();
        }

    }
}

public class ChildNode : TreeNode
{
    public RootNode ParentNode { get; set; }
    private bool visible;
    public bool Visible { get { return visible; } set { visible = value;OnVisibleChanged(): } }
    private void OnVisibleChanged()
    {
        if (ParentNode != null)
        {
            ParentNode.PopulateChildren();
        }
    }
}