Why does SubItems.Clear() also delete the Name attribute?

Question

I am using a WinForms ListView in details mode (.NET 4.0, running on Windows 7) and I have a function that needs to clear the subitems in a particular item. Unfortunately w

Answer 1

From MSDN:

Note

The first subitem in the ListViewItem.ListViewSubItemCollection is always the item that owns the subitems. When performing operations on subitems in the collection, be sure to reference index position 1 instead of 0 to make changes to the first subitem.

Thus, clearing the sub items collection, clears the values for the parent as well.