Way to color parts of the Listbox/ListView line in C# WinForms?

Question

1. Is there a way to color parts of ListBox Items (not only whole line)? For example listbox item consists of 5 words and only one is colored or 3 of 5.
2. Is the

Answer 1

There is no built-in API which supports this type of modification to a WinForms ListBox or ListView. It is certainly possible to achieve this but the solution will involve a lot of custom painting and likely overriding WndProc. This will be a very involved and heavy solution.

If this type of experience is important to your application I think you should very seriously consider WPF as a solution. WPF is designed to provide this type of eye candy and there are likely many samples on the web to get you up and running.