Images in ListView subitem

Question

How to add an image instead of text for a listview subitem? Like http://i44.tinypic.com/2mzz6s6.png ?

here is normally how I add a string:

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Answer 1

If you need the icon to be in the first column, then it could be easily done by creating an ImageList with images you want to display, assigning it to the SmallImageList property of the ListView and setting appropriate ImageIndex for the item. Like this:

listView1.SmallImageList = YourImageList;
ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem();
lvi.SubItems.Add("A");
lvi.SubItems.Add("B");
lvi.SubItems.Add("C");
lvi.ImageIndex = 2; // this will display YourImageList.Images[2] in the first column
listView1.Items.Add(lvi);

Answer 2

In WPF, you can do that easily,

In Windows Form, you can read

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/combobox/imagelistbox.aspx

as your sample.

The main idea is

First, set your listbox to ownerdraw

Then, in the itemdraw event (or is it drawitem?) grab your image and draw it in the space allotted (e.Graphics.DrawImage), then draw the test of the item next to it (e.Graphics.DrawString)