Sort item in listview columns

Question

Hi i have a listview with diffrent columns ID, Name, Zipcode, City, Country, Phone, Email And i have two Forms, Form1 and Form2

In the First form i have the listview with the columns On the second Form i have a Custom manager with diffrent Listboxes where you can type in the customer information (ex Name, Zipcode, City, etc)

I want the information in Form2 to be sorted after the columns in Form1 . ex the "name" Texbox in Form2 should be inserted in Form1 listview under the column Name, and The textbox Zipcode text should be inserted under the Zipcode column.

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It's hard because im little bit of a beginner and to follow diffrent sites didn't help me.

Please what can i do.

Form1

InitializeComponent();


listView1.View = View.Details;
listView1.LabelEdit = true;
listView1.AllowColumnReorder = true;
listView1.FullRowSelect = true;
listView1.GridLines = true;
listView1.Sorting = SortOrder.Ascending;

listView1.FullRowSelect = true;
listView1.Columns.Add("ID", 300, HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView1.Columns.Add("Name", 70, HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView1.Columns.Add("Zipcode", 70, HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView1.Columns.Add("City", 100, HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView1.Columns.Add("Country", 100, HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView1.Columns.Add("Phone", 100, HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView1.Columns.Add("Email", 100, HorizontalAlignment.Left);

Form2

private void btnOk_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           contact.FirstName = tbFirstName.Text;
           firstName = contact.FirstName;

           contact.LastName = tbLastName.Text;
           lastName = contact.LastName;

Form2

private void btnOk_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            MainForm main = new MainForm();

            contact.FirstName = tbFirstName.Text;
            firstName = contact.FirstName;

            contact.LastName = tbLastName.Text;
            lastName = contact.LastName;

still Form2

 public override string ToString()
    {
        return string.Format("[{0}]", contact.ToString());

    }

//Here comes the Contact class

class Contact
    {
    private string firstName;
    private string lastName

In the Contact class there is also properties of the above variables and then a ToString like this

public override string ToString()
        {
            return string.Format("[{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}]", firstName, lastName);


        }

Form1

private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ColumnHeader columnheader;
            ListViewItem listviewitem;

            // Ensure that the view is set to show details.
            listView1.View = View.Details;
if (customerframe.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) //if button OK is clicked then value will be inserted
            {
                listviewitem = new ListViewItem(contact.FirstName);
                listviewitem.SubItems.Add(contact.LastName);
this.listView1.Items.Add(listviewitem);

I dont really know know how much code you need for helping me, moreover, my code is very messy

Answer 1

That's not exactly "sorting" in the traditional sense. You are just trying to add a ListViewItem into the ListView control and then add more information into that ListViewItem's SubItems.

An example would look something like this:

ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem(yourID);
lvi.SubItems.Add(contact.Fullname);
lvi.SubItems.Add(zipcode);
lvi.SubItems.Add(city);
lvi.SubItems.Add(address.country);
lvi.SubItems.Add(phone);
lvi.SubItems.Add(email);

listView1.Items.Add(lvi);

Update:

Your customerFrame class (Form2) doesn't look like it has the reference to your Contact reference.

Your customerFrame return a Contact object with the data filled out. Something like this:

Public Contact GetContact() {
  Contact contact = new Contact();
  contact.FirstName = tbFirstName.Text;
  // etc.
  return contact;
}

And then your Form1 call should look something like this:

using (var customerFrame = new CustomerFrame()) {
  if (customerFrame.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) {
    Contact contact = customerFrame.GetContact();

    listviewitem = new ListViewItem(contact.FirstName);
    listviewitem.SubItems.Add(contact.LastName);
    // etc.
    this.listView1.Items.Add(listviewitem);
  }
}