ListView.TileSize Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Windows.Forms

Assembly:

System.Windows.Forms.dll

Source:

ListView.cs

Gets or sets the size of the tiles shown in tile view.

C#

[System.ComponentModel.Browsable(true)]
public System.Drawing.Size TileSize { get; set; }

Property Value

Size

A Size that contains the new tile size.

Attributes

BrowsableAttribute

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to use the ListView tiling feature. In the example, the tile view displays items that represent books. Each item is shown as a tile containing an icon of a book, the title, the author, and the publication year. For the example code to work, you must include an icon file named Book.ico in the same directory as the example. To see the tile view without icons, comment out the lines relating to the ImageList object.

C#

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

public class ListViewTilingExample : Form
{
    private ImageList myImageList;

    public ListViewTilingExample()
    {
        // Initialize myListView.
        ListView myListView = new ListView();
        myListView.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
        myListView.View = View.Tile;

        // Initialize the tile size.
        myListView.TileSize = new Size(400, 45);
        
        // Initialize the item icons.
        myImageList = new ImageList();
        using (Icon myIcon = new Icon("book.ico"))
        {
            myImageList.Images.Add(myIcon);
        }
        myImageList.ImageSize = new Size(32, 32);
        myListView.LargeImageList = myImageList;
        
        // Add column headers so the subitems will appear.
        myListView.Columns.AddRange(new ColumnHeader[] 
            {new ColumnHeader(), new ColumnHeader(), new ColumnHeader()});

        // Create items and add them to myListView.
        ListViewItem item0 = new ListViewItem( new string[] 
            {"Programming Windows", 
            "Petzold, Charles", 
            "1998"}, 0 );
        ListViewItem item1 = new ListViewItem( new string[] 
            {"Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software", 
            "Petzold, Charles", 
            "2000"}, 0 );
        ListViewItem item2 = new ListViewItem( new string[] 
            {"Programming Windows with C#", 
            "Petzold, Charles", 
            "2001"}, 0 );
        ListViewItem item3 = new ListViewItem( new string[] 
            {"Coding Techniques for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET", 
            "Connell, John", 
            "2001"}, 0 );
        ListViewItem item4 = new ListViewItem( new string[] 
            {"C# for Java Developers", 
            "Jones, Allen & Freeman, Adam", 
            "2002"}, 0 );
        ListViewItem item5 = new ListViewItem( new string[] 
            {"Microsoft .NET XML Web Services Step by Step", 
            "Jones, Allen & Freeman, Adam", 
            "2002"}, 0 );
        myListView.Items.AddRange(
            new ListViewItem[] {item0, item1, item2, item3, item4, item5});
                  
        // Initialize the form.
        this.Controls.Add(myListView);
        this.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(430, 330);
        this.Text = "ListView Tiling Example";
    }

    // Clean up any resources being used.        
    protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
        if (disposing)
        {
            myImageList.Dispose();
        }
        base.Dispose(disposing);
    }

    [STAThread]
    static void Main() 
    {
        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.Run(new ListViewTilingExample());
    }
}

Remarks

This property controls the size of tiles when the View property is set to View.Tile. Setting this property is useful to prevent line-wrapping when subitem text is too long to be displayed on a single line.

Applies to

See also

• ListViewItem.ListViewSubItemCollection
• View