Question

The DataGridView has a property “DataSource” that can simply be assigned to a DataTable to populate it. This means we don’t have to worry about the names/number of columns in the DataTable.

But, I haven’t found a similar way of populating a ListView. It seems that you need to know how many columns the DataTable has and the names of each in order to do this, making it much more difficult.

Can anyone suggest an easy way to populate a ListView like we can with a DataGridView?

Answer 1

private void LoadList()
{
    // Get the table from the data set
    DataTable dtable = _DataSet.Tables["Titles"];

    // Clear the ListView control
    listView1.Items.Clear();

    // Display items in the ListView control
    for (int i = 0; i < dtable.Rows.Count; i++)
    {
        DataRow drow = dtable.Rows[i];

        // Only row that have not been deleted
        if (drow.RowState != DataRowState.Deleted)
        {
            // Define the list items
            ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem(drow["title"].ToString());
            lvi.SubItems.Add (drow["title_id"].ToString());
            lvi.SubItems.Add (drow["price"].ToString());
            lvi.SubItems.Add (drow["pubdate"].ToString());

            // Add the list items to the ListView
            listView1.Items.Add(lvi);
        }
    }
}

Find sorting etc also at –
http://www.akadia.com/services/dotnet_listview_sort_dataset.html

Modified –

// Clear the ListView control
            listView1.Items.Clear();
            int ColCount = dtable.Columns.Count;
            //Add columns
            for (int k = 0; k < ColCount; k++)
            {
               listView1.Columns.Add(dtable.Columns[k].ColumnName);
            }
            // Display items in the ListView control
            for (int i = 0; i < dtable.Rows.Count; i++)
            {
                DataRow drow = dtable.Rows[i];

                // Only row that have not been deleted
                if (drow.RowState != DataRowState.Deleted)
                {
                    // Define the list items
                    ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem(drow[0].ToString());
                    for (int j = 1; j < ColCount; j++)
                    {
                        lvi.SubItems.Add(drow[j].ToString());                        
                    }
                    // Add the list items to the ListView
                    listView1.Items.Add(lvi);
                }
            }