Listview Details view not displaying anything

Question

I'm trying to use a details view mode of a ListView in winforms, but none of the items are displaying. The listview itself is growing as items are added, but nothing is being displayed.

It is displaying the items in list mode, but just not in Details mode.

I have used the following code, any ideas?

forms_listView.Columns.Add("URL");
forms_listView.Columns.Add("Position");

and

ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem();
lvi.Tag = form;
lvi.Text = form.URL;
lvi.Name = "URL";
ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem subItem = new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem(lvi, "Position");
subItem.Name = "Position";
subItem.Text = ""+form.Position;
lvi.SubItems.Add(subItem);
forms_listView.Items.Add(lvi);

Faint

Your problem is not in that bit of code. – Silent

@David Heffernan Thanks. Due to your comment, I looked around elsewhere and found it :) Never realized that clear removes columns as well – Faint

Answer 1

I found my problem. I was calling the listview.Clear() method which in the documentation says that it removes all items and all columns, which was causing no items to be displayed.

Faint

lol I've been trying to debug the same problem for past 20 mins! thanks :) need to call listview.Items.Clear() – Voltaire

Answer was useful to C++ too, as I needed to call ListView_SetExtendedListViewStyle and ListView_InsertColumn first (the other views looked fine). – Beauteous

It's always the dumbest little thing, isn't it? – Plebe

Answer 2

forms_listView.Columns.Add("First Column Title"); 
... 
forms_listView.Columns.Add("Last Column Title");  

Reichert