How many times you wished to be able to use data binding with the ListView control. Well.. there are a few implementations of the bindable ListView available on the web, including the one on the MSDN. But in my opinion the best implementation was done by Ian Griffins a few years ago. In fact I've re-used this code for the ListBoxEx that's a part of SDF. So, here's the ported to .NetCF version of the BindableListView control. It doesn't have the desing-time version, but you should be able to use it in the following way:

private BindableListView bindList;

 

public Form1()

{

      //

      // Required for Windows Form Designer support

      //

      InitializeComponent();

 

      bindList = new BindableListView();

      bindList.View = View.Details;

      bindList.Size = new Size(240, 100);

      bindList.Location = new Point(0, 0);

      this.Controls.Add(bindList);

 

      bindList.DataSource = CreateData();

}

 

private ArrayList CreateData()

{

      ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

 

      Person person = new Person();

      person.Id = 4123;

      person.Name = "Alex Yakhnin";

      list.Add(person);

 

      person = new Person();

      person.Id = 5327;

      person.Name = "Chris Tacke";

      list.Add(person);

 

      //…

      return list;

}

Where the Person class is:

public class Person

{

      private int id;

      private string name;

 

      public Person()

      {

 

      }

 

      public int Id

      {

            get

            {

                  return id; 

            }

            set

            {

                  id = value;

            }

      }

 

      public string Name

      {

            get

            {

                  return name;     

            }

            set

            {

                  name = value;

            }

      }

 

}

Download the BindableListView and a test client here:

BindableListViewClient.zip (11.62 KB)

I've made a few updates to the code I'd posted last time mainly by moving the text wrapping functionality inside of the ToolTip control, therefore making it more self contained and useful for other scenarious. I optimized the MeasureStringExtend function to use StringBuilder and improving its speed by 50-70%. Here's the new version:

private SizeF MeasureStringExtend(Graphics g, string text, Font font, int desWidth)

{

      int sp_pos = 0;

      int line = 0;

      int nWidth = 0;

      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

 

      //get original size

      SizeF size = g.MeasureString(text, font);

 

      if (size.Width > desWidth)

      {

            string[] words = text.Split(' ');

            for (int i = 0; i < words.Length; i++)

            {

                  sb.Append(words[i] + " ");

                  nWidth = (int)g.MeasureString(sb.ToString(), font).Width;

 

                  if (nWidth > desWidth)

                  {

                        //try to find a space

                        sp_pos = sb.ToString().LastIndexOf(" ");

                        if (sp_pos > 0)

                        {

                              //cut out the wrap line we've found

                              sb.Remove(0, sb.Length);

                              sb.Append(words[i] + " ");

                              line++;

                        }

                        else //no space

                        {

                              sb.Remove(0, sb.Length);

                              line++;

                        }

                  }

            }

            // Check for the last line

            if (sb.Length > 0)

            {

                  line++;

            }

      }

      else

      {

            line++;

      }

 

      return new SizeF(desWidth, (line * size.Height));

}

 

I've also created a VS 2005 and CF v2 version of the ListViewExtender and ListViewLabel classes. Instead of ApplicationEx and IMessageFilter I utilized my NativeWindow implementation. Here's the ListViewSubclass class, the sole purpose of which to catch the WM_LBUTTONDOWN message and raise the MouseDown event:

public class ListViewSubclass : NativeWindow

{

      public event MouseEventHandler MouseDown;

 

      private const int WM_LBUTTONDOWN = 0x0201;

      private ListView listView;

 

      public ListViewSubclass(ListView listView)

      {

            this.listView = listView;

            this.AssignHandle(listView.Handle);

      }

 

      protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)

      {

            if (m.Msg == WM_LBUTTONDOWN)

            {

                  int y = HiWord((int)m.LParam);

                  int x = LoWord((int)m.LParam);

                  MouseEventArgs args = new MouseEventArgs(0, 1, x, y, 0);

                  if (MouseDown != null)

                  {

                        MouseDown(listView, args);

                  }

            }

            base.WndProc(ref m);

      }

 

      private static int HiWord(int number)

      {

            if ((number & 0x80000000) == 0x80000000)

                  return (number >> 16);

            else

                  return (number >> 16) & 0xffff;

      }

 

      private static int LoWord(int number)

      {

            return number & 0xffff;

      }

}

Download the updated VS 2003 version from here.

ListViewToolTip2003.zip (10.08 KB)

And here's the VS 2005 version for your pleasure:

ListViewToolTip2005.zip (14.25 KB)