How to use ListView control as a reporting tool in C#

By using the Details view style, you can turn Listview control into awesome  reporting tool in C#.Net.

Here what you need to configure

1. Turn on the detailed view
2. Supply heading Text
3. Put the data.

The headers

You can use either Column Header object or simply configure with String and column width.

ColumnHeader headers = new ColumnHeader();
listView1.View = View.Details;
headers.Text = ” “;
headers.Width = 0;
listView1.Columns.Add(headers);
headers = new ColumnHeader();
listView1.View = View.Details;
headers.Text = “Date”;
headers.Width = 90;
listView1.Columns.Add(headers);
headers = new ColumnHeader();
headers.Text = “Account “;
headers.Width = 150;

Outing the items

You need to add subitems to items instead of passing values to Itemes. First up all we need an item object and a subitems object. Then we add the sub to item and item to Listview.

items = new ListViewItem();
sub = new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem(items, “Date”);
sub.Text = string.Format(“{0:MM/dd/yyy}”, r[“tdate”]);
items.SubItems.Add(sub); listView1.Items.Add(items);

that’s it.