Working with ListView in C++ - c++

Question

I got a stupid question on ListView Control usage.
I created a Windows Form App in VS2005. No I dragged a ListView Control from the toolbox. I want to implement my code to show some content(including both columns and rows).
I know a little of MFC knowledge. I am not sure I must study the past MFC CListCtrol knowledge to implement my application or I can just study the System.Windows.Forms::ListView simply.
I found a good sample working with ListView (but wrote in C#). Can I translate the sample code from C# to C++ in VS2005? If I can. Could you please give me some suggestions?
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;
public class ListView1 : Form {
ListView listView = new ListView();
public ListView1() {
listView.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
PopulateListView();
this.Controls.Add(listView);
this.ClientSize = new Size(400, 200);
}
private void PopulateListView() {
// Set the view to show details.
listView.View = View.Details;
// Add columns
listView.Columns.Add("Author",
-2,
HorizontalAlignment.Center);
listView.Columns.Add("Title",
-2,
HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView.Columns.Add("Price",
-2,
HorizontalAlignment.Left);
// Add items
ListViewItem item1 = new ListViewItem("Steve Martin");
item1.SubItems.Add("Programming .NET");
item1.SubItems.Add("39.95");
ListViewItem item2 = new ListViewItem("Irene Suzuki");
item2.SubItems.Add("VB.NET Core Studies");
item2.SubItems.Add("69.95");
ListViewItem item3 = new ListViewItem("Ricky Ericsson");
item3.SubItems.Add("Passing Your .NET Exams");
item3.SubItems.Add("19.95");
// Add the items to the ListView.
listView.Items.AddRange(
new ListViewItem[] {item1,
item2,
item3}
);
}
public static void Main() {
ListView1 form = new ListView1();
Application.Run(form);
}
}

Answer 1

Actually you don't need that much of your previous knowledge of MFC to implement ListView. C++ under .NET (in layman terms means WinForm applications), you can almost seamlessly translate C# code to C++. If I understood your question correctly, what you need to do is to make sure how objects and properties are accessed in C++ if you are developing a winforms app. Like in C# if you have Object.function, in C++ you may need to write Object::function, this is just an example. Definitely you would need to some more in depth knowledge to run things seamlessly.