How to highlight full row when item is selected in ListView

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I set my ListView properties like this

ListView1.View = View.List
ListView1.FullRowSelect = True
ListView1.GridLines = True

But still when I select any item in ListView, the full row is not highlighted. It only highlight the icon with it's text. Is there any way I can highlight the whole row when selected? I already do some research but all I found are mention to set the FullRowSelected to True but that seems not working for me.

Posted 11-Nov-15 19:41pm

dell-gl62m

Updated 3-Oct-22 10:13am

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Kenneth Haugland 12-Nov-15 2:14am

This is WinForms I assume?

dell-gl62m 12-Nov-15 2:15am

Yes. It's a WinForms. Do you have any idea?

Kenneth Haugland 12-Nov-15 2:16am

Nope, but if you switch to WPF I can help you :laugh:

dell-gl62m 12-Nov-15 2:19am

:D nvm

Naveen.Sanagasetti 12-Nov-15 2:42am

Refer below link this might be helpful to you, http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1397/Selection-Highlighting-of-an-Entire-Row

dell-gl62m 12-Nov-15 3:48am

I already went through this site and it does not really helping because I don't understand it :D

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Member 8006524 · Answer 1 · 2022-10-03T10:13:00

Solution 3

I use this in DoDataExchange
m_ListCtrl.SetExtendedStyle(LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT);

Posted 3-Oct-22 10:13am

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dustcool · Answer 2 · 2019-05-17T00:40:00

Solution 2

if (this.listViewProjects.Items.Count > 0)
{
this.listViewProjects.Items[0].Selected = true;
this.listViewProjects.Items[0].Focused = true;
this.listViewProjects.Focus();
this.listViewProjects.FocusedItem = this.listViewProjects.Items[0];
}

Posted 17-May-19 0:40am

dustcool

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Jonou 4-Sep-20 20:26pm

I know the post is old, but this actually works if you only need the 1st item highlighted.

But what if I needed to highlight all the items that have a check mark?
Any suggestions?

seravan · Answer 3 · 2015-11-11T20:24:00

Solution 1

Try below, just put in an event to your list view and get the index selected and replaced the zero below.

ListView1.Items[0].Selected = True

Posted 11-Nov-15 20:24pm

seravan

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dell-gl62m 12-Nov-15 2:33am

Thank you for your reply but I already did that and it isn't working too :(
I even set the ListView1.Focus() but still the same result.

seravan 12-Nov-15 2:51am

Should this really be a "ListView1.View = View.List" or are you looking for Details?

I tried below on my formload and it was able to highlight.

ListView1.View = View.List
ListView1.FullRowSelect = True
ListView1.GridLines = True

For index As Integer = 0 To 3
ListView1.Items.Add("Number" & index.ToString()).SubItems.Add("text")
Next

ListView1.Items(1).Selected = True

dell-gl62m 12-Nov-15 3:09am

Here is my coding that I currently use.

ListView1.View = View.List
ImageList1.ImageSize = New Size(32, 45)
ImageList1.Images.Clear()
ListView1.SmallImageList = ImageList1
ListView1.Items.Clear()
ListView1.FullRowSelect = True
ListView1.GridLines = True

For i = 0 To 9
Title = myList(0, i, 0) 'Path of image title inside my array
Img = myList(0, i, 2) 'Path of image url inside my array
If Title <> "" Then
ImageList1.Images.Add("imgKey" & i, New Icon(Img))
ListView1.Items.Add(Title, "imgKey" & i).Selected = True
ListView1.Focus()
End If
Next

Or maybe I do it wrong?

dell-gl62m 12-Nov-15 3:32am

Never mind, it solved already. I just add column in my ListView and set the FullRowSelect to True and view as Details. By the way, thank you so much for your response. I appreciate it so much :)