Get single listView SelectedItem

Question

I have the MultiSelect property of the listView set to false and I\'m trying to get a single listViewItem. But the available property is SelectedItems

Answer 1

None of the answers above, at least to me, show how to actually handle determining whether you have 1 item or multiple, and how to actually get the values out of your items in a generic way that doesn't depend on there actually only being one item, or multiple, so I'm throwing my hat in the ring.

This is quite easily and generically done by checking your count to see that you have at least one item, then doing a foreach loop on the .SelectedItems, casting each item as a DataRowView:

if (listView1.SelectedItems.Count > 0)
{
     foreach (DataRowView drv in listView1.SelectedItems)
     {
         string firstColumn = drv.Row[0] != null ? drv.Row[0].ToString() : String.Empty;
         string secondColumn = drv.Row[1] != null ? drv.Row[1].ToString() : String.Empty;
         // ... do something with these values before they are replaced
         // by the next run of the loop that will get the next row
     }
}

This will work, whether you have 1 item or many. It's funny that MSDN says to use ListView.SelectedListViewItemCollection to capture listView1.SelectedItems and iterate through that, but I found that this gave an error in my WPF app: The type name 'SelectedListViewItemCollection' does not exist in type 'ListView'.