What control do I use for a sorted list to make a column clickable

RobReid · January 21st, 2012, 12:05 PM

I have a windows form app .NET 4 written in C# that runs a number of HTTP requests collecting data about various websites and then once finished I order the results with some LINQ e.g

Code:

if (this.Accounts.Count > 0)
{

	// re-order list decending by No
	var lengths = from element in this.Accounts
		      orderby element.No descending
		      select element;


	foreach (AccountName ht in lengths)
	{
	    name = ht.AccountName;
	    nocount = ht.No; // no I am ordering by


	    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(name))
	    {
		link = "http://somelink.com/" + name;
			
		// add the item to my function that appends rows to a listview
		this.AddAccountNameToList(name, nocount, link);

	    }
	}
}

and then I call a function to add the items sorted by the No descending (most at the top of the list) to the list view. As the app is multi threaded I use a delegate to actually add each item to the listview e.g

Code:

// add list to listview (which I want the link column to be a real link)
 private void AddAccountNameToList(string AccountName, int count, string Link)
{
    ListViewItem listViewItem1 = new ListViewItem();
    ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem listViewSubItem1 = new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem();
    ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem listViewSubItem2 = new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem();
		 
    // format values for the row
    listViewItem1.Text = AccountName;            
    listViewSubItem1.Text = count.ToString("N0");
    listViewSubItem2.Text = Link.ToString();

    // add the two other columns to the list view
    listViewItem1.SubItems.Add(listViewSubItem1);
    listViewItem1.SubItems.Add(listViewSubItem2);
    
    // add the list view item to the list view - mulit threaded so I need to use a delegate
    this.AddAccountName(listViewItem1);   
    
}

// adds list item to listview
private void AddAccountName(ListViewItem ListItem)
{
    if (this.listViewAccountNames.InvokeRequired)
    {
	AddAccountNameCallback d = new AddAccountNameCallback(AddAccountName);
	this.Invoke(d, new object[] { ListItem });
    }
    else
    {
	this.listViewAccountNames.Items.Add(ListItem);
    }
}

Problem is that I want the actual link (3rd column) to be a clickable link that takes the user off to the URL I set.

How do I do this? Do I need to use a different control instead of a ListView like a Panel or can I add Link Elements as items into the ListView (I tried but failed with that)

any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks