Question

I have a ListView control in .NET Winforms containing filenames from a directory. When first displaying the control, I populate the listview, then programmatically select the first item in the list thusly:

    if (lvwFiles.Items.Count > 0)
    {
        ListViewItem firstItem = lvwFiles.Items[0];
        firstItem.Selected = true;
    }

This works fine, except that the first item in the list should be visually highlighted (reverse-highlighted?) to indicate to the user that it’s the one selected, as happens if the user then clicks one of the items.

It seems like a dumb question, but I’ve looked around on Stackoverflow and elsehwere and don’t see an obvious answer. Is there an easy way to make this happen via setting a property or something similar?

Answer 1

Change the HideSelection property to false in the designer (or through code). Doing that will allow the selected item to show even when the control does not have focus.