How to prevent flickering in ListView when updating a single ListViewItem's text?

Question

All I want is to update an ListViewItem\'s text whithout seeing any flickering.

This is my code for updating (called several times):

listView.BeginUp         


        

Answer 1

The ListView in CommonControls 6 (XP or newer) supports double buffering. Fortunately, .NET wraps the newest CommonControls on the system. To enable double buffering, send the appropriate Windows message to the ListView control.

Here are the details: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/list/listviewxp.aspx