Is there A way I could change the background color of a listview to the color of the parent windows form? Thanks.
You could try subclassing ListView and use it with your control, with the following in the initialiser:
SetStyle(System.Windows.Forms.ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor, true);
Otherwise, you could have a reference to your ListView object, and explicitly set the background colour in your form code.
myListView.BackColor = this.BackColor