Question

I have a listview (in Details view) that is filled dynamically. I want to grab the text from the the first item in the listview.
This code doesn’t work

lstSalesppl.Items[0].Selected = true;
string teamLeader = lstSalesppl.SelectedItems[0].Text;

I get an error on the second line: Invalid argument=Value of ‘0’ is not valid for ‘index’ however the same code works in another method when the listview item is double clicked

Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

try using

lstSalesppl.Items[0].Text

rather than

lstSalesppl.SelectedItems[0].Text;

lstSalesppl.SelectedItems may not be bound to the Selected attribute

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ListView.SelectedItems Property

The SelectedItems property will not contain any items if the property is accessed before the ListView handle is created, which typically occurs when ListView is initially loaded for display in the form. You can check to see if the handle is created with the IsHandleCreated property. When the MultiSelect property is set to true, this property returns a collection containing the items that are selected in the ListView. For a single-selection ListView, this property returns a collection containing the only selected item in the ListView. For more information on the tasks that can be performed with the items in the collection, see ListView.SelectedListViewItemCollection.