Listview sizing by content

[Shane]

When I populate a listview control from a database with the
appropropriate help codes for a data field, I want to make the
listview box the exact needed size to hold the list of codes and
descriptions.

I know that I can use the items.count property to find the number of
entries in the list, but I can't figure out the height required for
each row (and the column headers). I could just do a kludge by playing
with a twip multiplier until I get something workable, but I'd rather
do the calculation in the "Right .Net" way.

Thanks for any help.

Shane

[Shane]

I didn't get a response from the newsgroup, so I did some trial and
error until I found an algorithm that would work. I'm posting this for
any other developers who might have the same question. This answer
will only work for the default font and font size for the listview.

Const LVWHDRHEIGHT = 23 ' Height of listview overhead
Const LVWROWHEIGHT = 14 ' Height of listview column

lvw.height = = lvw.Items.Count * LVWROWHEIGHT + LVWHDRHEIGHT