How do I turn off row selection in a C# ListView -- specifically the dotted outline!

Question

I have a ListView control that is in FullRowSelect mode, MultiSelect off and using the "Details" View mode. When the user clicks on a row, it highlights the row in blue, which is fine, But when I programatically turn off the selection by setting the row's "Selected" field to false, the blue highlight does go away, but it leaves a dotted outline around the row.

How do you turn off the dotted outline??

Thanks!

Answer 1

The dotted line disappears when another control is in focus. You can achieve this by calling the Focus() method on another control. As far as I know, there is no simple way to permanently get rid of the dotted outline.

If you really want to get rid of the line, you'll have to set the OwnerDraw property to true and provide handlers for DrawItem and DrawSubItem.