Question

I am binding values to list box but string not showing in proper format.

ex my strings like

abc               10
abcd              20
asdfas            30

I made fixed length to first string that is 30 using padding

str1.PadRight(30) + str2.PadRight(2)

then also I am getting values like that

abc     10
abcd        20
asdfas            30

Please suggest how can I put same space between string

Answer 1

The Windows User Interface usually uses a variable-width font, so you can’t just pad with spaces to a given column to get the text to line up.

You will either need to set the ListBox to use a monospaced font (Courier or Lucida Console for example), use a ListView (or similar) that supports columns, or implement owner-drawn items so that you can control how the items are displayed, splitting up the text to drawing it in columns.