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Asked: 2026-05-17T14:58:49+00:00

I’m creating a twitter client in C#. I want to put every tweet as

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I’m creating a twitter client in C#.
I want to put every tweet as an element of a listbox.
I created a windows form that represents a tweet(it has a picture, and labels).

My problem is that when i can’t see the tweets when i add them to the listbox. After adding 3 tweets(windows form objects), the listbox has 3 blank elements in them, but i can’t see anything of it.

How can i add a windows form object to a listbox?

(these forms are working fine, because i can see them if i use the ShowDialog method)

please help

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can add a Form object to the ListBox.Items collection but the only thing you’ll ever see is the type name of the form. ListBox is not capable of rendering controls as its items.

    The efficient solution is to implement the ListBox.DrawItem event and custom draw the tweet. There’s a good example of such an event handler in the MSDN Library documentation for the event.

    The slow solution is to add controls to a Panel’s Collection property with its AutoScroll property set to true. That cannot be a form, it must be a UserControl.

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