select item from listview and cast to my custom object

Question

I\'m trying to select object from listview and cast to my custom object like this

MyObject foo = (MyObject)MyListView.SelectedItems[0];

but thi

Answer 1

Default ListView is not data-bindable (i.e. you can't assign some objects as data source of list view). It contains ListViewItem objects, which cannot be casted to your data type. That's why you getting this error.

If you want to get your custom object from ListViewItem then you need to construct it manually from ListViewItem:

ListViewItem item = (MyObject)MyListView.SelectedItems[0];
MyObject foo = new MyObject();
foo.FirstName = item.Text;
foo.LastName = item.SubItems[1].Text;
foo.Age = Int32.Parse(item.SubItems[2].Text);

OR you can store custom object in Tag property of ListViewItem and get it back:

ListViewItem item = (MyObject)MyListView.SelectedItems[0];
MyObject foo = (MyObject)item.Tag;

BTW consider to use DataGridView which supports binding.