ListView fixed size column headers

Question

Hi,

I am using a ListView in its 'Detail' view. I have added several columns there and I want to restrict resizing the column width. I couldn't find a ways to do that; is there any easy way to do that?

Thanks

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CJ

Answer 1

Use ColumnWidthChanging Event to prevent resizing & 

set the desired length of the column

private void listView1_ColumnWidthChanging(object sender, ColumnWidthChangingEventArgs e)
        {
            e.Cancel = true;
            e.NewWidth = 100;
        }

Answer 2

Hello CharithJ,

On agree with sendilg, when handling the ColumnWidthChanging of a ListView control, and setting the Cancel property to true will disable listview columnheaders from being resized. But this seems a bug that it can still resize it to a smaller size of width than originally set, see this link:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/116865/can-not-disable-listview-columnheaders-from-being-resized-in-columnwidthchanging-event-setting-the-cancel-property-to-true-has-no-effect?wa=wsignin1.0

Also I found an article about Disable Column Resizing in ListView Report Mode, hope this helps too.

Sincerely,
Helen Zhou

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Answer 3

I'm currently working on a application and the best workaround for this problem is:

private void listView1_ColumnWidthChanging(object sender, ColumnWidthChangingEventArgs e)
        {
            e.Cancel = true;
            e.NewWidth = listView1.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Width;
        }

Notify me if there are any bugs since I still have not been able to find any

Answer 4

it doesn't work for a listview in winforms if the listview is being populated row by row and the columns are added in the designer for a details view. 

Anyone know why?