Question

I have a Listview and an “ADD” button,when I click on ADD i should be able to browse the files in computer, select files and when click OK or the Open, the file list should be added in the listview…how to do that…is listview correct or any other alternative…?

Answer 1

ListView should be fine for file listing. Just be aware that longer file paths are difficult to see (have to horizontally scroll which is bad!) if you are gonna just add the full path to list. You can toy with the idea of other representation like:

File.Txt (C:\Users\Me\Documents)
C:\Users\..\File.Txt
etc

As far as doing it using code is concerned, you will need to use OpenFileDialog control to let user choose the files.

var ofd = new OpenFileDialog ();
//add extension filter etc
ofd.Filter = "txt files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*" ;
if(ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
    foreach (var f in openFileDialog1.FileNames)
    {
        //Transform the list to a better presentation if needed
        //Below code just adds the full path to list
        listView1.Items.Add (f);

        //Or use below code to just add file names
        //listView1.Items.Add (Path.GetFileName (f));
    }
}