how to fix the column width of a listview in c# windows form?

Question

i have a listview i need to fix the column width of the listview so that at run time user cannot drag the columnheaders and resize it.....what is the procedure?? i have searched all the properties but none of them help me out to solve this pbm.. this is possible in gridview but how will it be possible in listview....

Answer 1

Google says http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/LVHeaderSubclass.aspx

and http://www.codeproject.com/KB/list/myListViewNoSize.aspx

Answer 2

The easiest way is to use ColumnWidthChanging event:

private void listView_ColumnWidthChanging(object sender, ColumnWidthChangingEventArgs e)
{
    e.Cancel = true;
    e.NewWidth = listView.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Width;
}

Answer 3

Use ObjectListView. That not only allows individual columns to be fixed width, but to have minimum and maximum widths as well. It does the hard work of catching all cases, including Ctrl-Numpad-+, so that they cannot be circumvented.

Answer 4

Thanks a lot I've used it in vb.net as

 Private Sub ListView1_ColumnWidthChanging(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ColumnWidthChangingEventArgs) Handles ListView1.ColumnWidthChanging
     e.Cancel = True
     e.NewWidth = ListView1.Columns(e.ColumnIndex).Width    
 End Sub