Design Time Support of ListView in C#.NET

The ListView Controls for Windows Forms provide design-time support functionality to developers. This feature allows developers easily choose a data source or populate it with unbound items, groups and columns when design the user interface for their Windows Form applications. The users can easily add columns to ListView, group items in ListView, and add items to ListView at design time in C#.NET templates.

To add columns to Kettic ListView, we need to change the view type to DetailsView for Kettic ListView. And the WinForms control is able to display the data in columns views. The columns can be added to the ListView WinForms component at design time by populating the Columns collection of Kettc ListView.

The Kettic ListView control provides enhanced grouping functionality for the users. It helps the users to group data items into different groups conveniently and offers excellent end-user experience. Moreover, the ListView control is capable of grouping items at design time. To accomplish the ListView items grouping, we need to enable the properties of the ListView control, EnableCustomGroups and DisplayGroups, and then add the desired groups into the Groups collection of Kettic ListView Control.

To add items to Kettic ListView at design time, we need to use the Items collection of the ListView control.