Programaticaly select a listview item

[Manster]

Can anyone tell me how to programmatically select a listview item in a windows form listview? I want to force an item to be selected based upon its text. Thanks, :)

[Ista]

lv.SelectedItem = lv.Items[0]; I'm not an expert yet, but I play one at work. Yeah and here too.

[Manster]

I've tried this and it doesn't seem to work, I get a compile error when I tried this. :((

[Bo Hunter]

The ListView does not have a SelectedItem property. It has a SelectedItems property but is readonly. The proper way is to set the item's Selected Property to true; There are also a bunch of methods to help Like EnsureVisible( index ), TopItem and so on. Bo Hunter

Bo Hunter

[Manster]

So after I set a listviewitems's selected property to true, how can I programaticaly select that item in the listview? Is this even possible? I can't find anything on the net about this.

[Csharp]

C#:

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private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
listView1.Items[1].Selected=true;
MessageBox.Show(listView1.SelectedItems[0].Text);
}

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[Manster]

I added listView1.Items[1].Selected=true; to my function and it still doesn't highlight the selected item for me. Is their something I'm not doing correctly?

[Bo Hunter]

Set the HideSelection to false; Bo Hunter

Bo Hunter

[Ista]

lvOfficeNote.Items[0].Selected = true is how you would do it I'm not an expert yet, but I play one at work. Yeah and here too.

[Furty]

Make sure you call the Focus() method of the listview after selecting the listviewitem.