Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

[Roman R]

Could anyone point me to a multiline (text of an item can be displayed on multiple lines) listview Windows Forms control? Thanks

[Heath Stewart]

Trying searching[^] first. There's a ton of examples of this on CP alone, besides what the link above provides. It's just an owner-drawn ListView which is trivial to do. You could also google for it.

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[Roman R]

Thanks, but I searched first and then asked for help.

[Heath Stewart]

Do you need a ListView or a ListBox? The samples that are available are vastly different, and owner-draw ListBox examples are far more plentiful because they provide managed support for owner drawing, where a ListView requires that you override a hell of a lot of Windows messages and handle many different notification messages.

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[Carlos H Perez]

Obviously you are looking for a free implementation but just in case you don't find it and you need to save time, you can check ours. we have both: MultilineListBox: http://24.199.8.122/MultilineListBox3.aspx[^] MultilineListView: http://24.199.8.122/ListView4.aspx[^] Regards, Carlos.

[Nick Parker]

Carlos, just curious if you plan to continue posting your articles here, they are always full of great information and a great learning tool. - Nick Parker
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[Carlos H Perez]

Hi Nick, I would like to write a series of articles on WinFX --or Avalon, or whatever the name for new technology for writing Windows Application in Longhorn will be. Probably, when Longhorn gets into beta and things get more well defined I will start posting some of my findings here. The new batch of technologies making a debut in Longhorn will surely keep us busy for years to come and I am certainly looking forward to sink my teeth on all the information related with the new UI model. Regards, Carlos.

[Roman R]

I need a ListView control.

[Heath Stewart]

At this time, there isn't many articles on CodeProject about this. There was one, but the guy used CodeProject as a testing front for what he later turned commercial. :( To know what you need to do, research the Windows Common Control ListView. There are messages and notifications that you must be familiar with. After this, you override WndProc in your ListView derivitive class and handle those notification messages. You'll probably also have to P/Invoke several methods (especially SendMessage) and create constants that represent message ID, and several structs. You can try googling for an example, too.

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[Roman R]

True, I am looking for a free one, but I've saved your link for time when I will develop software for sale. Thanks

[Lost User]

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/aa_listview.asp[^]

[Roman R]

Thanks. I will check it out. This seems to be what I need. No source code, though. :(

[Lost User]

The source is in the demo project.