Preventing users from resizing columns widths in ListView?

c#, listview, winforms

Solution

You may check Better ListView Express. We have implemented AllowResize property on the columns, which does exactly what you need.

Problem

I have a ListView In My Winform that has 4columns, Name, Money, ID and Level. The problem is when I run my app, I still have the ability to mess with the columns widths and change them. I searched And found that I should do something like this: ``` private void listView1_ColumnWidthChanging(object sender, ColumnWidthChangingEventArgs e) { e.Cancel = true; e.NewWidth = listView1.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Width; } ``` But the problem is that when I debugged and Ccanged the columns widths, this event didn't even fire! Why didn't it fire? And how can I make the column widths fixed? I made a new winform app just in case if there was something wrong in my old one, it fired, but only for the first time running the app .. here's the code: ``` namespace CsharpWinformTestingStuff { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); listView1.ColumnWidthChanging += new ColumnWidthChangingEventHandler(listView1_ColumnWidthChanging); } void listView1_ColumnWidthChanging(object sender, ColumnWidthChangingEventArgs e) { e.Cancel = true; e.NewWidth = listView1.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Width; } } } ``` here is the initialize component just in case you might wanna know: ``` private void InitializeComponent() { this.listView1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ListView(); this.columnHeader1 = ((System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader)(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader())); this.columnHeader2 = ((System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader)(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader())); this.columnHeader3 = ((System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader)(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader())); this.SuspendLayout(); // // listView1 // this.listView1.Columns.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader[] { this.columnHeader1, this.columnHeader2, this.columnHeader3}); this.listView1.GridLines = true; this.listView1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(12, 12); this.listView1.Name = "listView1"; this.listView1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(284, 275); this.listView1.TabIndex = 0; this.listView1.UseCompatibleStateImageBehavior = false; this.listView1.View = System.Windows.Forms.View.Details; // // columnHeader1 // this.columnHeader1.Text = "Name"; this.columnHeader1.Width = 97; // // columnHeader2 // this.columnHeader2.Text = "Age"; this.columnHeader2.Width = 52; // // columnHeader3 // this.columnHeader3.Text = "Email"; this.columnHeader3.Width = 157; // // Form1 // this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F); this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font; this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(308, 299); this.Controls.Add(this.listView1); this.Name = "Form1"; this.Text = "Form1"; this.ResumeLayout(false); } ```

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