How can I setup a ListView in a WinForm so that when an item is selected it is not highlighted? i.e. no blue background.
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How can I setup a ListView in a WinForm so that when an item is selected it is not highlighted? i.e. no blue background.
ObjectListView — an open source wrapper around a .NET ListView — allows you to choose which colors you want the selected items to have. So you can set the highlighting background color to be the same as the ListView, and just change the foreground color. As David H pointed out, you will have to do something different with the selected rows!
In the following shot, the selected row has a darker background and lighter text color: