Issue with ListView Control

This is driving me crazy. I have a listview control on form in VC# 2008 Express.
There are three colums set in its properties and its in details mode. I'm trying to add rows of data in at run time but any time I try and access the list Items (either to Add or Clear) I'm told that I have a NullReferenceException and that "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

What am I doing wrong?

Code:

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ListViewItem item = new ListViewItem("NewItem");
item.SubItems.AddRange( new string[] { "SubItem1", "SubItem2" });

lvProcesses.Items.Add("item");

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It's easier to have a data binding source associated with the list view, then set the data source to a bindingList that contains your element type, and the DataMember property set to the data the BindingList Holds. Then when you add your stuff to the bindinglist, it automatically updates the listview control.

Unfortunatly that's not really an option here, I'm trying to populate the ListView with the list of processes currently running on a target system. So it has to be done at runtime.

What is lvProcesses?

lvProcesses is just the ListView Control itself

it seems to me you are trying to add string "item" instead of object ListViewItem item

I've had it both ways around, neither works. The string version is a valid version of the overloaded method, but the issue seems to be that the ListViewItemContainter Items (that's lvProcesses.Itemsin this case) hasn't been instanciated, however you can't individually instaciate it as its read only.

1) You forgot to (manually) create a System.Windows.Forms.ListView object and assign it to lvProcesses
2) You are trying to add the item before the call to InitializeComponent (in your form class)

1) is if you create your controls manually, 2) is if you're using the visual designer

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Originally Posted by Magos

1) You forgot to (manually) create a System.Windows.Forms.ListView object and assign it to lvProcesses
2) You are trying to add the item before the call to InitializeComponent (in your form class)

1) is if you create your controls manually, 2) is if you're using the visual designer

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Ahaha!! Fantastic thanks, I'd put it in the Initial method of the form to test things but before InitalizeComponents had been called as a test. That's solved it :D