Column rearrange in list view

[Brian Henry]

does anyone have a good method or technique for saving the order of columns
that someone rearranged them to and restoring that order on the applications
next load?

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Using the .NET Framwork 1.x you need to use the Win32 API to get/set the
position of a column since that property is not exposed by .NET.

Using .NET 2.0 you have ColumnHeader.DisplayIndex or similar.

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Carlos J. Quintero

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[Brian Henry]

I am using .NET 2.0 at the moment, but not sure how to save the states and
restore them properly..

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Well, when you close the window, you iterate ListView.Columns to get the
Text and DisplayIndex pairs and you store them somewhere, for example in the
Windows registry
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\YourCompany\YourApp\YourWindow\YourListview).
When you load the window again, you retrieve the pairs and for each column
you set its DisplayIndex...

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Carlos J. Quintero

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