[c#] Get single listView SelectedItem

I have the MultiSelect property of the listView set to false and I'm trying to get a single listViewItem. But the available property is SelectedItems. I've been using the following code...

foreach (ListViewItem item in listView1.SelectedItems)
{
    //do something with item.text or whatever
}

Because I know there will only be one item selected. What is the correct way of doing this?

If you want to select single listview item no mouse click over it try this.

private void timeTable_listView_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            Point mousePos = timeTable_listView.PointToClient(Control.MousePosition);
            ListViewHitTestInfo hitTest = timeTable_listView.HitTest(mousePos);



            try
            {
            int columnIndex = hitTest.Item.SubItems.IndexOf(hitTest.SubItem);
            edit_textBox.Text = timeTable_listView.SelectedItems[0].SubItems[columnIndex].Text;
            }
            catch(Exception)
            {

            }



        }

foreach (ListViewItem itemRow in taskShowListView.Items)
{
    if (itemRow.Items[0].Checked == true)
    {
        int taskId = Convert.ToInt32(itemRow.SubItems[0].Text);

        string taskDate = itemRow.SubItems[1].ToString();
        string taskDescription = itemRow.SubItems[2].ToString();            
    }
}

Sometimes using only the line below throws me an Exception,

String text = listView1.SelectedItems[0].Text; 

so I use this code below:

private void listView1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) 
{ 
    if (listView1.SelectedIndices.Count <= 0) 
    { 
        return; 
    } 
    int intselectedindex = listView1.SelectedIndices[0]; 
    if (intselectedindex >= 0) 
    {
        String text = listView1.Items[intselectedindex].Text;

        //do something
        //MessageBox.Show(listView1.Items[intselectedindex].Text); 
    } 
}

For a shopping cart situation here's what I recommend. I'm gonna break it down into it's simplest form.

Assuming we start with this(a list view with 2 colums, 2 buttons, and a label):

First things first, removing the items, to do that we'll enter our remove button:

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    listView1.Items.Remove(listView1.SelectedItems[0]);
    label1.Text = updateCartTotal().ToString();
}

Now the second line is updating our labels total using the next function i'll post to addup all the total of column 2 in the listview:

private decimal updateCartTotal()
{
    decimal runningTotal = 0;
    foreach(ListViewItem l in listView1.Items)
    {
        runningTotal += Convert.ToDecimal(l.SubItems[1].Text);
    }
    return runningTotal;
}

You don't have to use decimal like I did, you can use float or int if you don't have decimals. So let's break it down. We use a for loop to total all the items in the column 2(SubItems[1].Text). Add that to a decimal we declared prior to the foreach loop to keep a total. If you want to do tax you can do something like:

return runningTotal * 1.15;

or whatever your tax rate is.

Long and short of it, using this function you can retotal your listview by just calling the function. You can change the labels text like I demo'd prior if that's what you're after.

I do this like that:

if (listView1.SelectedItems.Count > 0)
{
     var item = listView1.SelectedItems[0];
     //rest of your logic
}

If its just a natty little app with one or two ListViews I normally just create a little helper property:

private ListViewItem SelectedItem { get { return (listView1.SelectedItems.Count > 0 ? listView1.SelectedItems[0] : null); } }

If I have loads, then move it out to a helper class:

internal static class ListViewEx
{
    internal static ListViewItem GetSelectedItem(this ListView listView1)
    {
        return (listView1.SelectedItems.Count > 0 ? listView1.SelectedItems[0] : null);
    }
}

so:

ListViewItem item = lstFixtures.GetSelectedItem();

The ListView interface is a bit rubbish so I normally find the helper class grows quite quickly.

This works for single as well as multi selection list:

foreach (ListViewItem item in listView1.SelectedItems)
{
    int index = ListViewItem.Index;
    //index is now zero based index of selected item
}

None of the answers above, at least to me, show how to actually handle determining whether you have 1 item or multiple, and how to actually get the values out of your items in a generic way that doesn't depend on there actually only being one item, or multiple, so I'm throwing my hat in the ring.

This is quite easily and generically done by checking your count to see that you have at least one item, then doing a foreach loop on the .SelectedItems, casting each item as a DataRowView:

if (listView1.SelectedItems.Count > 0)
{
     foreach (DataRowView drv in listView1.SelectedItems)
     {
         string firstColumn = drv.Row[0] != null ? drv.Row[0].ToString() : String.Empty;
         string secondColumn = drv.Row[1] != null ? drv.Row[1].ToString() : String.Empty;
         // ... do something with these values before they are replaced
         // by the next run of the loop that will get the next row
     }
}

This will work, whether you have 1 item or many. It's funny that MSDN says to use ListView.SelectedListViewItemCollection to capture listView1.SelectedItems and iterate through that, but I found that this gave an error in my WPF app: The type name 'SelectedListViewItemCollection' does not exist in type 'ListView'.