Selecting all items in a listview

[Bry]

I know you can select a single item in a list view using the following
code

listView.Items[index].Selected = true;

Is it possible to do this for all items in the listView control without
using a loop?

Thanks.

 

[VJ]

Not that I know.. but you could extend and write your own ListView control
with a Method that will do this. In the Method you will essentially write a
for loop that will select all items..

VJ

 

[Tim Wilson]

You could loop through and select each item. However, a method that is a
little faster, especially when you've got a lot of items, is to send the
ListView some key messages. For example...

this.listView1.Focus();
SendKeys.Send("{HOME}");
SendKeys.Send("+{END}");

There was a discussion a while back about this, but related to the ListBox.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...read/thread/f4291f5f9161fd00/3b606fe3ef5805ff

 

[Guest]

You could loop through and select each item. However, a method that is a
little faster, especially when you've got a lot of items, is to send the
ListView some key messages. For example...

this.listView1.Focus();
SendKeys.Send("{HOME}");
SendKeys.Send("+{END}");

You might need to send a Space after the {HOME} to make it work. I'm using
an oaklistview (win32 control pinvoked from user32.dll with support for
images anywhere in the list), and haven't tested with a standard listview,
but in my case without the space to select the first item the 2nd keystroke
sent was processed from the item selected before sending the keys.