Getting ListView items in C# from SysListView32 using SendMessage

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From: Dave Rich (davidr1ch_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: 23 Nov 2004 09:45:32 -0800

Hi

I am trying to access the listview items from a SysListView32 control
in C#. I am using LVM.FINDITEM and LVFINDINFO through SendMessage to
try to get the text from each column in the item (it is a multi-column
list view).

I am using the PARTIAL flag to try to find an item starting with a
certain letter, that i am setting on the LVFINDINFO.psz. I am always
being returned -1 (or 0) as the index and am not quite sure what i am
doing wrong - i hate Win32! Could someone be able to outline the steps
i need to take, given the handle to the syslistview32 control, to get
an item from a multi-column listview and find out the text in each
column for that item?

Many thanks

Dave