Inherit the Listview Control and Repaint it

[FireFlux]

Inherit the Listview Control with Visual Basic ?

I have decided do inherit the Listview control some days ago to change some painting things to make the .net Listview look like the explorer's Listview. I am very new on doing those things like painting and also have not much practise with inheriting , so I got some problems while I tried to change the Control to that Listview I like.

Here are my Questions :

- Can I run a method if there is a item or column added , delete etc ? I did't find an event , but perhaps there is an other way I don't know about ?

- Can I decide if a subitem , which is delivered by DrawSubItem in detailview , is the first subitem which represent the listviewitem ?

- Can I inherit the ColumnCollection , Columnitem , ListviewitemCollection and the Listviewitem etc Class alter them and make my inherited Listview work with them ?

Not so important things :

- How can I make o transparent look on a picture or overlay it with a color ?
- How can I get the values which shows me how much I have scrolled with the bars , and how can I set a new value to those values ?

Thanks for helping me out :)

[nothix9]

there is an opacity property on forms not sure if all controls have it.