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Multi column list control – the best choice

Hello

I’ve just started programming in VB.Net in Visual Studio having done lots of VBA.

I’d like to display a multi column list on my form. I’d like to display files and their attributes:

Filename Album Artist Track number
Nine Lives – Crash.mp3 Nine Lives Aerosmith 3

Which is the best control to do this?

A ListBox appears to be able to store only one field of data – MultiColumn seems to mean displaying a single field of data down then across – with no vertical scroll bars, only horizontal

A ListView seems to be the best option. I can populate it, but I can’t seem to “get” any values from it. I can get the selected index number, but not the values.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks

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jobrienct

If you want to use a listview then heres a snippet to get you started reading values:

For Each row As ListViewItem In myListView.Items
For Each column As ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem In row.SubItems
MsgBox(column.Text)
Next column
Next row

In this way you can see the relationship between a listview and a coordinate grid or spreadsheet where it can behave as rows and columns and your values are the intersection.

JOhn