Selecting an item in ListView

[fizzer]

I have a text box for the user to enter an id number. The user then clicks on a button and if a matching number is found in the id field of the listView, that item becomes selected. Any ideas how I do this??

[MrPolite]

what do you mean by "id field of the listView"? is it the text of the list item the id?

[fizzer]

Sorry, didn't explain very well. The database I'm using has a field called ID which is a number. How do I select the record in the ListView by clicking on a button.

Hope that makes a bit more sense??

[MrPolite]

well you could use something like this to find the index of the item... only if the ID is the text of the listview item, and only if its the first colum... you can probably change this a bit to make it work for your code. I dont think .NET itself provides a way to search:

Public Shared Function ListViewFind(ByVal txt As String, ByVal lvw As ListView) As Integer
 
            Dim li As ListViewItem
            For Each li In lvw.Items
                If li.Text = txt Then
                    Return li.Index
                End If
            Next
 
            Return -1
        End Function

[fizzer]

Thanks for the code. I can now get the index. As you've probably guessed I'm a newbie!

So is there any way I can use this index to automatically select the item in the listview??

Thanks in advance.

[fizzer]

Think I've cracked it at last:

Me.ListView1.Items.Item(intIndex).Selected = True

Thanks for your help MrPolite.