I have a tree view that i want to show some nodes in it. how can i create nodes that can draw themselves without using imagelist in treeview?
Actually i dont want to use any image index and imagelist.

First derive a treeview class from System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.

Please see the follwoing class.

public class MyTree : System.Windows.Forms.TreeView

{

public MyTree()

{

//Indicates that full drawing will be done by us.

this.DrawMode = System.Windows.Forms.TreeViewDrawMode.OwnerDrawAll;

}

/// <summary>

/// Called when each node is drwn

/// </summary>

/// <param name="e"></param>

protected override void OnDrawNode(DrawTreeNodeEventArgs e)

{

Image im = (Image)e.Node.Tag;

e.Graphics.DrawImage(im,new Point(0,0));

}

}

The image which we have to draw is add as tag.

The code for adding the node will be as following.

Image im = Image.FromFile("C:\\SmallImage.JPG");

TreeNode node = new TreeNode();

node.Tag = im;

treeView1.Nodes.Add(node);

First derive a treeview class from System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.

Please see the follwoing class.

public class MyTree : System.Windows.Forms.TreeView

{

public MyTree()

{

//Indicates that full drawing will be done by us.

this.DrawMode = System.Windows.Forms.TreeViewDrawMode.OwnerDrawAll;

}

/// <summary>

/// Called when each node is drwn

/// </summary>

/// <param name="e"></param>

protected override void OnDrawNode(DrawTreeNodeEventArgs e)

{

Image im = (Image)e.Node.Tag;

e.Graphics.DrawImage(im,new Point(0,0));

}

}

The image which we have to draw is add as tag.

The code for adding the node will be as following.

Image im = Image.FromFile("C:\\SmallImage.JPG");

TreeNode node = new TreeNode();

node.Tag = im;

treeView1.Nodes.Add(node);

yes , and if you just wanna draw the icons for the nodes and let the treeview do the left a couple of lines can be added to your code:

e.DrawDefault = true;

base.OnDrawNode(e);

thats it.