Can anybody help me with embedding controls in the listview. I need to add button controls as subitem of listview. thanks
Well, you could be talking about the Windows Forms ListView, in which case you're pretty much SOL (sh*t outta luck.) You can custom draw on the ListView but even that has limitations in Windows Forms.
Or you could be talking about the Windows Presentation Foundation ListView. In this case it's really quite simple. You can create a DataTemplate that you associate with the ListView's columnn. Here's an example.
Or finally you could be talking about the ASP.NET ListView control which also has data templating support but the implementation is a bit different from WPF. Here's an example of that.
Use ObjectListView control which is opensource. It is excellent and is derived from ListView in Window.Forms.
Try Better ListView Express. It is free and allows custom embedded controls:
Better ListView has been created to fix known issues of the regular .NET ListView and solve common issues such as this one out of the box.
If you can use another control instead of a listview, try the DataGridView - you can add any type of control to a cell (subitem).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e0ywh3cz.aspx
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Is there a suitable grid control in Xamarin Android, table-like, for a business app that supports databindind with collections that help altering various columns/cells?
As far as I find out, there are alternatives only by inheriting an existing control like ListView and creating a custom control.
If a control as one I am searching for does not exist, what could be the best option left?
Many thanks in advance!!
Is there a suitable grid control in Xamarin Android, table-like, for a business app that supports databindind with collections that help altering various columns/cells?
You can refer to GridView, it displays items in a two-dimensional, scrollable grid.
And this tutorial will show how to create a Grid View.
I'm looking for a way to create a DataGridView that has rows that when clicked expand to reveal another datagridview right below them. Is this possible to accomplish without creating a brand new datagridview-like control or am I better off displaying the nested datagridviews elsewhere?
(Here's an article that explains how to do it in ASP.NET. however, it's not clear whether it can be done with Windows Forms:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164077.aspx)
You will allways need a custom control (free or paid) to achive this.
Tree View with Columns(free under CPOL)
DevExpress XtraGrid (paid)
Janus GridEx (paid)
Please forgive any silly words I may say. I am coming from a Actionscript3 background.
I am using "Visual C# 2010 Express".
I have a simple Form, in a WindowsForm Project, which currently holds just a Listbox. (Which I presume I will have to change to something else).
And I made myself a different display object (User Control) that is currently a Checkbox a title. (More will be added once I get over the hurdle below)
But I can't even get as far as Displaying the UserControl as a list.
I can't seem to find anywhere on the listbox to say "User this displayobject as the visual for listbox". I see tutorials saying "ItemsPanelTemplate" but I get error saying there is no such property for a Listbox.
I even tried making the Form in Design view and it is not in the list down the side of the GUI when I dragged as Listbox on screen.
Now I know how I would do this in pure Actionscript, but I dont know how to do this in Pure C#. Tutorials are not helping, as all the Microsoft site seems to try to give me is XAML (XML). and I am looking for C# code. So I have thrown in the towel and pleading for outside help.
Thank you for any help you can give.
It sounds like you want a list of items, each with a CheckBox and some descriptive text. Try using the CheckedListBox control. MSDN link.
This question also answers the question of how to do custom image drawing for each item in a ListBox. It may be helpful.
Edit after clarification:
Try embedding the UserControl in a ListView, rather than a ListBox.
References on embedding controls in ListViews:
C# listview - embedding controls
Adding button into a Listview in WinForms
You could also use a list of Panels, with each Panel hosting a UserControl.
C# List of Panels
But the real answer, as seen in the question's comments, is that Winforms doesn't have a convenient way to do this. This is a task much better suited to WPF.
You may check out freeware component Better ListView Express from ComponentOwl. It supports simple Details view without columns, two and three-state checkboxes, images and more...
They also offers full version with even more nice features like hierarchical and multi-line items.
Ok so I have a table cell that I would like to use in this custom ListView UserControl, so I was wondering how exactly do you set one of these up and how do you call the cells to be my custom ones? Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
The ListView control is a b**ch, so if you are really planning to get your hands dirty with it, be prepared for a great big mess.
If you would prefer a ready-made solution, I will point you to this one: CodeProject - ObjectListView
We at ComponentOwl made custom ListView control called Better ListView. (Or maybe you can be interested in the freeware edition Better ListView Express).
You can also try the suggested ObjectListView.
The ListView control is -very- complex and contains myriads of little features all we had to implement. So I recommend you to look for a finished 3rd party control, since coding this is challenging (the BetterListView hit 40K lines of code only to meet requirements of ListView, now having about 80K+ lines of code!)
How to use CheckedListBox control in DataGridView Control in Windows Forms.
These are under the namespace. System.Windows.Forms.CheckedListBox and System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView
Is it possible.
A code snippet will be a great help
EDIT
I need an help on this link that I found. I hope this might work. But I am more interested on how will it work. What exactly is happening at each step.
How can you use a WebForms control in WinForms? There is no CheckBoxList class for WinForms (unless you roll you own).
See this solution. I think it does what you want.
Tri-State TreeView Control