[Resolved] Listview Saving help! [VS2005]

[sk|Lance]

Hi,
i am trying to get it so i can save the information from a listview to a textfile but i am stuck on how to get the 2 columns 1 being time and the other one being Events to write to the text file. Can anyone please help me this is how far i have got so far.

saveFileDialog1 = new SaveFileDialog();
            saveFileDialog1.Filter = "txt files (*.txt)|*.txt"; 
            saveFileDialog1.Title = "Save Text File";                        saveFileDialog1.ShowDialog();
 
            if (saveFileDialog1.FileName != "")
            {
                System.IO.StreamWriter file = new System.IO.StreamWriter(saveFileDialog1.FileName);
                file.WriteLine(listview1.Items);
                file.Close();
            }
        }

[jmcilhinney]

The Items property of a ListView is a collection of ListViewItems. The SubItems property of a ListViewItem is a collection of ListViewSubItems. Each subitem has a Text property. That's how you get the text displayed in a "cell" in a ListView. To visit every item in a collection you would use either a For or For Each loop. You have a collection of items and within each you have a collection of subitems. That means that you need two loops, one nested inside the other.

[sk|Lance]

Hi,
Ive tryed sorta of how you recommended however i am missing something here and cant get it to work for both columns or all rows could you possbily help me?

System.IO.StreamWriter file = new System.IO.StreamWrite(saveFileDialog1.FileName);
for (int i = 0; i < this.lvLog.Items.Count; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < this.lvLog.Items[i].SubItems.Count; j++)
{
string tab = (j == 0) ? string.Empty : "\t";
file.WriteLine(lvLog.Items[i].SubItems[j].Text);
file.Close();
}

lvLog = the listview

[ComputerJy]

You are checking for the TAB but you are not writing it

string tab = (j == 0) ? string.Empty : "\t";
file.WriteLine(lvLog.Items[i].SubItems[j].Text + tab);

Another 2 things:
1- you are not skipping a line when a row ends
2- You are closing the file after each subitem is written

[sk|Lance]

i am not sure how to do the rest i am very new to c# and programming could you possibly help me? as for i am a noob and i cant currently think of how to do that.

[ComputerJy]

you are not skipping a line when a row ends

put the following after the end of the for( j ) loop

file.WriteLine();

You are closing the file after each subitem is written

Move the

file.Close();

to the end (when you stop writing data) after closing the for ( i ) loop