Populating a listview multi-column

Question

Regarding Listbox to ListView migration.

Hello.

I have a Listbox I add entries like this to:

1;content

Where 1 is always an int and content is always a string. I can access each one seperately.

Now I want the result to be sorted descendingly, ie:

1;content
4;content2
2;content3

=>

4;content2
2;content3
1;content

As this doesn't look good, I want to use a Listview instead. Like this:

Frequency | Content
===============
4 | content2
2 | content3
1 | content

Problem is, the tabular property does not seem to exist, all entries are being put in like symbols in a listview in explorer. Also I have problems "reaching" the 2nd column(content), ie I only see 4,2,1.

How would I prepare and populate a listview in c# .net 4 for that?

Answer 1

To set the ListView into Details mode:

        listView1.View = View.Details;

Then to set up your two columns:

        listView1.Columns.Add("Frequency");
        listView1.Columns.Add("Content");

Then to add your items:

        listView1.Items.Add(new ListViewItem(new string[]{"1", "content"}));
        listView1.Items.Add(new ListViewItem(new string[]{"4", "content2"}));
        listView1.Items.Add(new ListViewItem(new string[]{"2", "content3"}));

I chose to use the overload of the ListViewItem constructor that takes a string array representing the column values. But there are 22 overloads! Look through then and find the one that fits your situation best.

To set automatic sorting of items:

        listView1.Sorting = SortOrder.Descending;

Answer 2

I realise that this post is over a year old but I thought this may be of use, I wrote an article years ago about using a ListView as a multicolumn ListBox, which includes code for populating it. The article is available here (Using a ListView as a multicolumn ListBox) it is written using VB.NET but the code is pretty much exactly the same for C#, I may rewrite it using C# and will add a link for that but that'll be another time.

Hope this helps, if not feel free to let me know :)