Finding an item in a listview

[Lucy]

Hi I have a listview on my windows form with a details view. The listview has to columns and many items. These items and subitems are add to the listview in the form load event. The item are also put in s specific order. I then want to find an item in the second column and then select this item and give it focus. Can anyone give me any suggestions or where I can find good examples of listviews? Lucy

[SABhatti]

have you googled it[^]

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[Lucy]

Hi thank you for the link. I was trying to go about this a different way but I found the answer before your reply using trial and error, Here is my form load event and the last if statement finds the item: RegistryKey key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("RegKey_test", true); RegistryKey k = key.OpenSubKey("Classification"); if (k != null) { string[] names = k.GetValueNames(); for (int i = 0; i < k.ValueCount; i++) { int values = Convert.ToInt32(k.GetValue(names[i], "")); ListViewItem item1 = new ListViewItem(); ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem item2 = new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem(); item1.Text = names[i]; item2.Text = Convert.ToString(values); item1.SubItems.Add(item2); listView1.Items.Add(item1); } } if (key.GetValue("Threshold") != null) { string KeyValue = Convert.ToString(key.GetValue("Threshold", "")); ListViewItem itemFind = listView1.FindItemWithText(KeyValue, true, 0); if (itemFind != null) { itemFind.Selected = true; listView1.FocusedItem = itemFind; } } I am not sure if this is user friendly yet as the second column of the listview may be taken out so that the values cannot be seen by the user. I would then need a new ways to find the value needed to select the appropriate item. Lucy