Prevent persistent edited label after label edit in listview C#

Question

In my Winforms application, I want to allow the user to edit listview items labels like how you would do when renaming files or folders in windows explorer. What I want to achieve now is the exact behavior that windows explorer behaves when you rename a file or folder.

In an attempt to achieve that effect, I called a method which renames the affected file/folder in the AfterLabelEdit event and then go on to repopulate my listview. If it matters, my listview is a virtual listview and therefore all my items are stored in a dictionary.

The issue I have now is that although the file renames properly and the listview gets updated as the new name is reflected in the list, The edited label stays persistent so now I see 2 listview items with the same name where one of them is a localized edited text whilst the other is the actual one. The resulting effect is that the localized label now represents a file with another name which the listview wont show.

Here is a snippet of my current logic:

    private void UpdateListView(int index, string NewName)
    {
        items[index] = NewName;
        items.Sort();
        listViewItemsList.Clear();

        foreach(string item in items)
        {
            ListViewItem Item = new ListViewItem();
            Item.Text = item;
            listViewItemsList.Add(Item);
        }

        listView1.BeginUpdate();
        listView1.VirtualListSize = listViewItemsList.Count;
        listView1.EndUpdate();
    }

    private void listView1_AfterLabelEdit(object sender, LabelEditEventArgs e)
    {
        string newName = e.Label;
        UpdateListView(e.Item, newName);
    }

Does anyone know how I can refresh my listview after the edit while removing the localized label text done by the label edit?

Edit: For those who would like to see the issue in action, feel free to download this project file and edit a label in the listView. Then, click on "Refresh" and the issue can be seen. I included a "Show Actual Data" button to see the list items without breakpoints and what I actually want the listview to show after editing a label. To ensure you see the issue, be sure to edit a label and give a new name such that it should rearrange when sorted alphabetically.

Download link for sample project: https://app.box.com/s/t24ej9hbokcr3qcg8nkbs8slknf5ez5w

Answer 1

To anyone who may come across this issue, I Managed to solve the issue by using listView.BeginInvoke(); So my solution is run my UpdateListView() inside the BeginInvoke() method instead of within the listView.AfterLabelEdit() method as according to MSDN,

Because the ListView.AfterLabelEdit event takes place before the label edit is committed, calling the ListView.Sort method in a handler for this event will sort the item using the original value.

So running my UpdateListView() code in the ListView.AfterLabelEdit() would result in the listview bug I mentioned in my question above. Do also note that in this case, my listview is in virtualMode so my listview is based off a List. Here is my latest code:

private void UpdateListView(int index, string NewName)
    {
            items[index] = NewName;
            items.Sort();
            listViewItemsList.Clear();

        foreach(string item in items)
        {
            ListViewItem Item = new ListViewItem();
            Item.Text = item;
            listViewItemsList.Add(Item);
        }

        listView1.BeginUpdate();
        listView1.VirtualListSize = listViewItemsList.Count;
        listView1.EndUpdate();
    }

private void listView1_AfterLabelEdit(object sender, LabelEditEventArgs e)
    {
        string newName = e.Label;
        listView1.BeginInvoke(new MethodInvoker(() => UpdateListView(e.Item, newName)));
    }

I will update the code snippet in the original question so that there is more consistency and it will be easier to see the changes.