ListView Control

Learn about augmented versions of CListCtrl and CListView with sort direction indicators, coloring of the sort column, column hiding, and more.

Learn about the possibilites and extra functionality that a simple ListView provides for loading images, either from an external image file, an Internet URL, application resources, and from external EXE, DLL, OCS, or CPL files.

Overcomes owner window flicker when implementing dragging functionility.

Learn about a search files with resources to explore it. The selected resource can be extracted. This tool is a sample of using Splitter, List, Tree, and resource display.

Learn how to select multiple items without pressing the CTRL or SHIFT key on a touchscreen app or Windows CE app.

Tom Archer illustrates how easy Visual Studio .NET and Windows Forms make creating interfaces that once required manual coding.

Learn the different ways of accessing the address book data using Extended MAPI. It explains how to work with both smaller and larger address books in a Global Address List of an organization.

Display the results of a SQL SELECT operation. Many grid controls are available for VC++ developers, but this control is small yet contains many features for developers and end users.

How to create the basis for a file system spy application.

Learn how to determine whether a printer supports color printing.

Discover a new implementation of a drag and drop in a list and tree control.

Learn how to implement a customized report list control with in-place combo box and edit control by using the reusable classes.

Learn how to navigate through the controls the way one navigates in an Excel sheet.

Discover an example of data structures for the realization of constructing a one-to-many relationship between two data structures.

Learn how to skin a CListCtrl, including the CHeaderCtrl and the scrollbars. You will be able to totally customize the look and feel of almost all the aspects of a CListCtrl. (The article, demo program, and figures were updated.)

Removes the scrollbars from a CListCtrl without losing the ability to scroll.

Build a listview control that can be used to highlight a row in two different colors'—one for inserting and one for replacing data depending on the position of the cursor.

A simple article on how to place a background image in a list control.

Learn now to add multiline balloon ToolTips to ListView column headers.

Learn how to delete more than one row/item of a listview control in reported mode at once.

A way to subclass the listview edit control.

How do I use a derived CListCtrl with a CListView?

Learn how to change the background color of individual columns in a list view.

Create a class that uses "Custom Draw" capabilities for the drawing the CListCtrl. No owner-draw control is needed.