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ListView column headers

Hi Experts,

If I have an arraylist populated with a customer class:

customer.firstName
customer.lastName
customer.age

It is possible to bind a listview control to this arraylist so that the column header names are automatically taken from the class members so that the column headers would be:
firstname, lastName, age.

miketonny

if your first three items in your arraylist are the headers then you can do something like

 Dim customerList() as your class
            ListView1.View = View.Details
            ListView1.Columns.Add(customerList(0), 50, HorizontalAlignment.Center)
            ListView1.Columns.Add(customerList(1), 50, HorizontalAlignment.Center)
            ListView1.Columns.Add(customerList(2), 20, HorizontalAlignment.Center)

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DColin

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miketonny:

The header names are not part of the array.

Is it possible to access the class members name. So for example:

customer.firstName.membername would return "firstName"?

Nasir Razzaq

What are you trying to achieve? Make the display display any collection? Why not use a DataTable and a DataGridView?

DColin

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CodeCruiser:

Yes I am trying to create a display table that will display any class or data type and automatically set to headers to the name of the data variable.

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