How do I fix control ghosting issue in ListView?

Question

I have a ListView control and I want to add a checkbox in upper left corner of ListView.

The solution for adding the CheckBox control that I'm using is this:

Me.ListViewCustom1.Controls.Add(CheckBoxControl);
Me.CheckBoxControl.Location = new Point(3, 5);

The issue I'm having is on ListView scroll. The checkbox appears all smeared up. I've been scavaging the web for a solution and I really can't find something that would solve this issue.

This is how the controls appears:

I hereby asking for help in this complicated situation.

Answer 1

Assuming you don't want the option that I used in the linked post, the other way that you can approach this is adding the CheckBox to the header of the ListView.

Using SendMessageYou can send LVM_GETHEADER message to the listview control and get the handle of the header, then SetParent will help you to set the header as parent of checkbox:

const int LVM_GETHEADER = 0x1000 + 31;
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, int Msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr SetParent(IntPtr hWndChild, IntPtr hWndNewParent);
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var header = SendMessage(listView1.Handle, LVM_GETHEADER, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero);
    var checkBox = new CheckBox()
    {
        AutoSize = true,
        Text = "",
        Location = new Point(3, 5)
    };
    this.listView1.Controls.Add(checkBox);
    SetParent(checkBox.Handle, header);
}

And this is what you get:

Obviously I've added a few extra spaces before text of the column header to make room for the check box.