selecting an item from listview in C#

Question

I am trying to show the selected item in listview in a message box, so using the following code

    private void lstMovie_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    { MessageBox.Show(lstMovie.FocusedItem.Text);}

it works fine for the first time but second time I try to select another item it throws an exception. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Answer 1

Try this:

private void lstMovie_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  if(lstMovie.SelectedItems.Count > 0)
  MessageBox.Show(lstMovie.SelectedItems[0]); //Will select first selected item.
}

Answer 2

Maybe you should rather be using ListView.SelectedItems Property instead of ListView.FocusedItem Property

ListView.FocusedItem Property

Although an item may be the one displaying the focus reticle, it may not actually be a selected item in the ListView. Use the SelectedItems or SelectedIndices properties to obtain the selected items in the ListView control, the FocusedItem property is not necessarily selected.