Cast ListView Items to List?

Question

How can I cast ListView.Items to a List?

This is what I tried:

List list = lvFiles.Items.Cast

        

Answer 1

The Cast method will essentially try to perform a box/unbox, so it will fail if the items in the list aren't already strings. Try this instead:

List list = lvFiles.Items.Cast()
                                 .Select(x => x.ToString()).ToList();

Or this

List list = lvFiles.Items.Cast()
                                 .Select(x => x.Text).ToList();