Workaround for wierd ListView behavior

Hi,

I am looking for a workaround for a wierd behavior, possibly a bug, that I am encountering with the .Net 2.0 ListView control. For some reason, when I have a list view with MultiSelect = false and I set the selected item before adding the ListView to a container control, the selected item gets cleared and then reset when the ListView is added to the container. This causes a problem because I am using the SelectedIndexChanged event to update an underlying data item, and it is causing unnecessary updates to occur. This can easily be reproduced in a clean project by creating a form and putting the following code in it.

public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            ListView lv = new ListView();

            lv.MultiSelect = false;
            lv.Columns.Add("Test");
            lv.Items.Add("Test");
            lv.Items[0].Selected = true;

            lv.SelectedIndexChanged += ListView_SelectedIndexChanged;

            this.Controls.Add(lv);
           
        }

        private void ListView_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print("SelectedCount = {0}", ((ListView)sender).SelectedItems.Count);
        }
    }

Notice that if you run it, the event is fired 3 times, and the count is 1, then 0, then 1 again. All events are fired when the this.Controls.Add(lv) line is run.

Is there any way to work around this behavior other than to avoid setting the selected item until after the ListView is added to the container?

Thanks,
Zaphod.