Hide ID column in ListView control

Question

I'm binding ListView control to DataTable. The DataTable have a column named ProductID. Is there any way to hide this column, because I'm gonna need it's value later?

Answer 1

I'll just address the UI angle. You can hide it by setting the column width to 0. For example, if the ID is bound to the 2nd column:

public partial class Form1 : Form {
    public Form1() {
        InitializeComponent();
        listView1.Columns[1].Width = 0;
        listView1.ColumnWidthChanging += listView1_ColumnWidthChanging;
    }

    private void listView1_ColumnWidthChanging(object sender, ColumnWidthChangingEventArgs e) {
        if (e.ColumnIndex == 1) {
            e.NewWidth = 0;
            e.Cancel = true;
        }
    }
}

It's not quite ideal, the user can get confuzzled by the 'splitter' cursor that shows up when she's a bit too far to the right of the column divider. That's very hard to fix.