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Unable to add ListViewItem - Windows universal app C++

I'm writing a windows universal app (store app) in C++ and XAML, and I made a listview which I want to add items to. This works perfectly fine when hard-coding the items, but once I want to add them via a loop, this doesn't work anymore. And I get the error 

cannot convert argument 1 from 'const char *' to 'Platform::Object ^'

Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thank you

My code:

/* This works */
myListView->Items->Append("Hello, world!");

/* This doesn't work */
const char* strarray[] = { "Hello", "World", "Awesome" };
for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(strarray); i++) {
    myListView->Items->Append(strarray[i]);
}
Solution

  • You are using a basic datatype for your string array

    const char* strarray[]

    So maybe the function xxx->Items->Append() needs to receive a managed datatype which would be the following for example:

    array<String^>^ strarray = { "Hello", "World", "Awesome" };