How prevent duplicate items listView C#

Question

I am using Windows Forms. With this code I add items to listView from comboBox.

ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem();         


        

Answer 1

You should be using ContainsKey(string key) instead of Contains(ListViewItem item)

var txt = comboBox1.Text;

if (!listView1.Items.ContainsKey(txt))
{
    lvi.Text = txt;

    // this is the key that ContainsKey uses. you might want to use the value 
    // of the ComboBox or something else, depending the combobox is freetext 
    // or regarding your scenario.
    lvi.Name = txt;

    lvi.SubItems.Add("");
    lvi.SubItems.Add("");
    lvi.SubItems.Add("");
    lvi.SubItems.Add("");

    listView1.Items.Add(lvi);
}