Selecting an item in a ListView control ( winforms ) while not having the focus

Question

I am trying to mimic the functionality of the address book in Outlook So basically a user starts typing in some text in an edit control and a matching ListView Item is selected

private void txtSearchText_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   ListViewItem lvi = 
            this.listViewContacts.FindItemWithText(this.txtSearchText.Text,true, 0);

        if (lvi != null)
        {
            listViewContacts.Items[lvi.Index].Selected = true;
            listViewContacts.Select();
        }

    }

The problem with this is once the listview item gets selected the user cant keep typing into the text Box. Basically I want a way to highlight an item in the listview while still keeping the focus on the edit control

This is WINFORMS 2.0

Answer 1

ok never mind it's doable by just manipulating the background colour of the selected item