I have another problem with the listview:

The view is set to largeicon and when I fill up the list dynamically with items it scrolls always to the last clicked item. I can drag the scrollbar down but after releasing it jumps right back to the item I clicked and puts it on top. The wierd thing is this only happens while adding items to the view. After completion it behaves normal and I can scroll up and down regardless of the item I clicked.

Any Ideas?

Greetz

Sven.

Wrap your list loading code in BeginUpdate/EndUpdate.

nope. The user wants to see the update process which would not be the case with Begin and EndUpdate

Call SelectedItems.Clear before populating the ListView, that will prevent the ListBox from automatically scrolling back to the selected item. I would also recommend disabling the ListView while you are populating it.

Thanks for your advice- but maybe I should have added more details to make my reason for this process clearer:

It's a pictureviewer-component. The user klicks on a folder in a TreeView and gets to see its contents as thumbnails. As soon as the user sees the first thumbs rendered he wants to be able to perform at least an "open" operation to view the picture. When the user doubleklicks the item it triggers the opening in another window. After closing it he can go on with another item in the listview. To be able to do so the rendering of the thumbs happens in a separate thread.

An interesting point is: even if I deselect the just clicked item by clicking in the white space between the thumbs it somehow still has focus since the scrollbar keeps jumping back to it.

Is this somekind of bug or am I missing something?

I am unclear on exactly what the problem is. Maybe you could post some sample code that reproduces the issue you are seeing.