ColumnHeader.ImageIndex Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Windows.Forms

Assembly:

System.Windows.Forms.dll

Source:

ColumnHeader.cs

Gets or sets the index of the image displayed in the ColumnHeader.

public:
 property int ImageIndex { int get(); void set(int value); };

[System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter(typeof(System.Windows.Forms.ImageIndexConverter))]
public int ImageIndex { get; set; }

[<System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter(typeof(System.Windows.Forms.ImageIndexConverter))>]
member this.ImageIndex : int with get, set

Public Property ImageIndex As Integer

Property Value

Int32

The index of the image displayed in the ColumnHeader.

Attributes

TypeConverterAttribute

Exceptions

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

value is less than -1.

Remarks

The ImageIndex property refers to the index of an image specified by the SmallImageList property of the ListView that contains the ColumnHeader. The ImageIndex property returns -1 if there is no SmallImageList set on the containing ListView. The image displayed in a column is typically used to indicate the state of items in the column.

ImageKey and ImageIndex are mutually exclusive, meaning if one is set, the other is set to an invalid value and ignored. If you set the ImageKey property, the ImageIndex property is automatically set to -1. Alternatively, if you set the ImageIndex property, the ImageKey is automatically set to an empty string ("").

If the ImageList property value is changed to null, the ImageIndex property returns its default value, -1. However, the assigned ImageIndex value is retained internally and used when another ImageList object is assigned to the ImageList property. If the new ImageList assigned to the ImageList property has an ImageList.ImageCollection.Count property value that is less than or equal to the value assigned to the ImageIndex property minus one (to account for the collection being a zero-based index), the ImageIndex property value is adjusted to one less than the Count property value. For example, consider a button control whose ImageList has three images and whose ImageIndex property is set to 2. If a new ImageList that has only two images is assigned to the button, the ImageIndex value changes to 1.