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Guys i'm a beginner in implementing ListView in c#. I'm having a problem with these piece of code in c#.net. And I can't figure out whats happening in the control shown by the output. It seems i forgot something to give a value in properties of ListView Control.

2nd column values must appear on the first column.

This is my code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;   
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;                  
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;        
using System.Data.OleDb;            
namespace Database2
    public partial class Form1 : Form
        OleDbConnection con;
        OleDbDataAdapter adapter;
        DataTable table;
        string conString = "Provider = Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0.; Data Source=DatabaseTest.mdb";
        string sqlQuery = "SELECT * FROM Person";
        public Form1() {
            InitializeComponent();
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e){
            con = new OleDbConnection(conString);
            adapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(sqlQuery,conString);
            table = new DataTable();
            InitializeList();
            adapter.Fill(table);
            for (int i = 0; i < table.Columns.Count; i++)
                lstDisplay.Columns.Add(table.Columns[i].ColumnName.ToString(), lstDisplay.Width / 6-1);
            for (int i = 0; i < table.Rows.Count; i++) { 
                ListViewItem row = new ListViewItem();
               for (int j = 0; j < table.Columns.Count; j++)
                    row.SubItems.Add(table.Rows[i][j].ToString());
               lstDisplay.Items.Add(row);
        private void InitializeList() {
            lstDisplay.GridLines = true;
            lstDisplay.AllowColumnReorder = true;
            lstDisplay.LabelEdit = true;
            lstDisplay.FullRowSelect = true;
            lstDisplay.Sorting = SortOrder.Ascending;
            lstDisplay.View = View.Details;
Is there a listView property i forgot to give a value? 
The ListViewItem itself represents the first column. Subsequent columns are represented by ListViewSubItems.
for (int i = 0; i < table.Rows.Count; i++)
   ListViewItem row = new ListViewItem(table.Rows[i][0].ToString());
   for (int j = 1; j < table.Columns.Count; j++)
      row.SubItems.Add(table.Rows[i][j].ToString());
   lstDisplay.Items.Add(row);
                wow Thank you very much. That was a quick answer to my problem. I need to wait 4 minutes before I can accept your answer. :-D Up
– Jed
                Jul 28, 2012 at 5:26
  
A ListView control displays a list of items that are defined by the ListViewItem class. Each ListViewItem can store subitem objects that are defined by the ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem class.
ListView.Items represents first column and ListViewItem.SubItems represent sub item for each rows. So that your code should be like this:
for (int i = 0; i < table.Rows.Count; i++)
   ListViewItem row = new ListViewItem(table.Rows[i][0].ToString());
   for (int j = 1; j < table.Columns.Count; j++)
      row.SubItems.Add(table.Rows[i][j].ToString());
   lstDisplay.Items.Add(row);
        
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