How to auto scroll down in WinForms ListView control when update new item?

Question

How to auto scroll down in ListView control when update new item?

I have tried

listView1.Focus();
listView1.Items[listView1.Items.Count - 1].Selected = true;

but this not working.

Debauchery

WinForms? WPF? Please specify... – Roughneck

Answer 1

Try

listView1.Items[listView1.Items.Count - 1].EnsureVisible();

Balkhash

Might I add that this is a winforms only solution, EnsureVisible doesn't exist on the WPF ListView. Only saying because I hit this page from a google search for "WPF ListView auto scroll to bottom". – Oblation

Sounds fair enough. Do you have a link to a solution for WPF to help anybody else reaching this answer for the same reason? – Balkhash

The problem seems to arise from not being able to access the built-in ScrollViewer on the WPF ListView through a property, I am just testing a solution now and will write it up on my blog, link to follow. – Oblation

Finally got around to writing that blog post, here's a solution for WPF for info. dutton.me.uk/2013/08/13/… – Oblation

@Oblation ironically the more times W P F is mentioned in the comments, the more likely Google is to list this question incorrectly. The search engine isn't terribly context-aware. – Contextual

Very true @MarkRansom – Oblation

For some reason, EnsureVisible did not work for me because ListView control was in an other tab. So i used this instead: listview1.TopItem = listView1.Items[listView1.Items.Count - 1] – Siegbahn

Answer 2

Another possible solution:

listview1.TopItem = listView1.Items[listView1.Items.Count - 1];

Siegbahn

Answer 3

old fashioned solution:

 ListView1.SetFocus;
 PostMessage(ListView1.Handle, WM_KEYDOWN, VK_DOWN, 0);

Joeannjoed

Answer 4

where x is an int, of the item in the list you want to see

listView1.Items[x].Focus();
listView1.Items[x].Selected = true;
listView1.EnsureVisible(x);

Kennykeno

Answer 5

maybe

listView1.Items[listView1.Items.Count - 1].Selected = false;
listView1.Items[listView1.Items.Count - 1].Selected = true;

Maxon

Answer 6

Codesleuth's answer of calling EnsureVisible() on the last item in the list only worked for me when called during the forms OnShown() event.

I tried doing it in the constructor, where I was populating my ListView, but nothing happened. Doing it during OnShown() worked a treat, however.

Hope this helps.

Sideman