listview: getting subitem text

i have a listview with the following columns id, surname, firstname. i want to get the surname when a row is selected how do i do it using visual c开发者_开发问答# 2008?

subscribing SelectedIndexChanged for ListView1:

ListView1.SelectedItems[0].Subitems[1].Text

you have some tons of microsoft documentation about it..

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listviewitem.listviewsubitem.aspx

You have to obtain the selected Item: SelectedItem, then look in the SubItems collection. In general we can say that is better to have some object bound to the item ( for example in the tag ) and obtain back th einformation from it.

Create a SelectedIndexChanged Event or ItemActivate (if you want to double click the item before it fires whatever work you want).

listView1.SelectedItems[0].Subitems[1].Text

Remember that SubItems start at zero index and in your surname column is in index of 1. Column id takes the zero index.