Use a list control to display any arrangement of icons with labels, as in File Explorer, or columnar lists of text, with or without icons. For a description of the four possible "views" (not to be confused with MFC views) you can have in a list control — icon view, small icon view, list view, and report view — see Views in the CListCtrl class overview.

In some views, users can drag icons to different positions or edit icon labels. For example, see the right-hand pane in File Explorer, which uses a list control in a nondialog window. You can experiment with the available views in Explorer's View menu.

For related information, see About List-View Controls in the Windows SDK.

• List Control and List View

• List Items and Image Lists

• Callback Items and the Callback Mask

• Creating the List Control

• Creating the Image Lists

• Adding Columns to the Control (Report View)

• Adding Items to the Control

• Scrolling, Arranging, Sorting, and Finding in List Controls

• Implementing Working Areas in List Controls

• Processing Notification Messages in List Controls

• Changing List Control Styles

• Virtual List Controls

• Destroying the List Control

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