Question

How can I get the visible items from a winforms listview? There doesn’t seem to be a straightforward way, and I am reluctant to query items by control.clientrectangle or other hacks similar to the following:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/372011/how-do-i-get-the-start-index-and-number-of-visible-items-in-a-listview)

When I say visible I mean the items are visible on the screen.

Answer 1

You can iterate from ListView.TopItem and check ListViewItem.Bounds property of each item whether it is located within the client area.

Better ListView Express is a freeware component that have also BottomItem property, so you can easily go through the visible items with a for loop (if both TopItem and BottomItem are not null):

for (int i = betterListView.TopItem.Index; i < betterListView.BottomItem.Index; i++)
{
  // your code here
}

You can try this – it have the same interface as ListView and have many improvements over .NET ListView.