Select next item in ListView

Question

I have a method that removes currently selected item in a ListView

listView1.Items.Remove(listView1.SelectedItems[0]);

How do I select the next in the ListView after removing the selected one?

I tried something like

var index = listView1.SelectedItems[0].Index;
listView1.Items.Remove(listView1.SelectedItems[0]);
listView1.SelectedItems[0].Index = index;

But I get the error

Property or indexer 'System.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem.Index' cannot be 
assigned to -- it is read only

Thank you.

change `listView1.SelectedItems[0].Index = index;` to `listView1.SelectedIndex = index;` — ryrich, Mar 21 '13 at 14:16

Crazy Cat · Answer 1 · 2014-11-11T20:36:38.047

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I had to add one more line of code to a previous answer above, plus a check to verify the count was not exceeded:

int selectedIndex = listview.SelectedIndices[0];
selectedIndex++;
// Prevents exception on the last element:      
if (selectedIndex < listview.Items.Count)
{
  listview.Items[selectedIndex].Selected = true;
  listview.Items[selectedIndex].Focused = true;
}

edited Nov 11 '14 at 20:36

answered Nov 11 '14 at 20:28

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '13 at 14:18

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ListView doesn't have a SelectedIndex property. It has a SelectedIndices property.

Gets the indexes of the selected items in the control.

ListView.SelectedIndexCollection indexes = this.ListView1.SelectedIndices;

foreach ( int i in indexes )
{
 //
}

answered Mar 21 '13 at 14:18

Soner Gönül

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I tried adding listView1.SelectedIndices = i; in the foreach statement, but I'm getting an error. (I'm still a beginner, sorry) – Abraham Mar 21 '13 at 14:25
@Abraham What is the error? You can read http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.aspx – Soner Gönül Mar 21 '13 at 14:26
Same as original "cannot be assigned to -- it is read only" and also "Cannot implicitly convert int to System.Windows.Forms.ListView.SelectedIndexCollection" – Abraham Mar 21 '13 at 14:33
`ListView.SelectedIndices` returns `SelectedIndexCollection` not `int` like `i`. You should use `foreach` loop to read all indexes which are selected. And then, you can use `i` as an index of these. Please read _MSDN_ page a few times.. – Soner Gönül Mar 21 '13 at 14:37
Okay, I will read it and come back after it working, thank you. – Abraham Mar 21 '13 at 14:43

David · Answer 3 · 2013-03-21T14:19:28.180

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try use listView1.SelectedIndices property

edited Mar 21 '13 at 14:19

answered Mar 21 '13 at 14:13

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Am I missing something? All I see under "listView1.SelectedX" is SelectedIndexChanged, SelectedIndices, and SelectedItems. – Abraham Mar 21 '13 at 14:17

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 21 '13 at 14:25

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If you delete an item, the index of the "next" item is the same index as the one you just deleted. So, I would make sure you have listview1.IsSynchroniseDwithCurrentItemTrue = true and then

var index = listView1.SelectedItems[0].Index;
listView1.Items.Remove(listView1.SelectedItems[0]);
CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(listview).MoveCurrentTo(index);

edited Mar 21 '13 at 14:25

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answered Mar 21 '13 at 14:25

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"CollectionViewSource doesn't exist in current context" am I missing a using statement? – Abraham Mar 21 '13 at 14:31

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 25 '13 at 10:58

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I've done this in the following manner:

int selectedIndex = listview.SelectedIndices[0];
selectedIndex++;
listview.Items[selectedIndex].Selected = true;

answered Apr 25 '13 at 10:58

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 05 '14 at 14:48

I actually had to do this:

        int[] indicies = new int[listViewCat.SelectedIndices.Count];
        listViewCat.SelectedIndices.CopyTo(indicies, 0);
        foreach(ListViewItem item in listViewCat.SelectedItems){
            listViewCat.Items.Remove(item);
            G.Categories.Remove(item.Text);
        }
        int k = 0;
        foreach(int i in indicies)
            listViewCat.Items[i+(k--)].Selected = true;
        listViewCat.Select();

to get it to work, none of the other solutions was working for me.

Hopefully, a more experienced programmer can give a better solution.

Select next item in ListView

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