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();
lvi.Text = comboBox1.Text;
lvi.SubItems.Add("");
lvi.SubItems.Add("");
lvi.SubItems.Add("");
lvi.SubItems.Add("")

if (!listView1.Items.Contains(lvi))
{
    listView1.Items.Add(lvi);
}

I need prevent duplicate items but not work, How Can I solve this?

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);
}

Answer 2

The ListView class provides a few way to check if an item exists:

• Contains On Items collection, and
• FindItemWithText methods

It can be used like :

// assuming you had a pre-existing item
ListViewItem item = ListView1.FindItemWithText("item_key");
if (item == null)
{
    // item does not exist
}


// you can also use the overloaded method to match subitems
ListViewItem item = ListView1.FindItemWithText("sub_item_text", true, 0);

Answer 3

This code worked for me:

if(DialogResult.OK == fileDialogue.ShowDialog())
            {
                foreach (var v in fileDialogue.FileNames)
                {
                    if (listView.FindItemWithText(v) == null)
                    {
                        listView.Items.Add(v);
                    }

                    else
                    //Throw error message

Answer 4

if (!listView1.Items.Any(i => i.text == lvi.text))
{
    listView1.items.Add(lvi)
}

I'm just guessing on the text property, but I'm pretty sure that's there.

Alternatively - just have a List<string> and use it as a data source for your list.

Answer 5

String csVal = Value;
ListViewItem csItem = new ListViewItem(csVal);
if (!listViewABC.Items.ContainsKey(csVal))
{
    csItem.Name = csVal;
    listViewABC.Items.Add(csItem );
}