Disable the Horizontal ScrollBar from ListView in Winforms

Question

In my application I'm using lots of ListView's for many purposes. I want to disable the Horizontal ScrollBar. Which I have done effectively using the following links as references Disable Horizontal ScrollBar 1 , Disable Horizontal ScrollBar 2. The following is my code:

First of all I set the Scrollable Property of the ListView to false

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static public extern bool ShowScrollBar(System.IntPtr hWnd, int wBar, bool bShow);
private const uint SB_HORZ = 0; //Horrizontal Scroll
private const uint SB_VERT = 1; //Vertical Scroll
private const uint ESB_DISABLE_BOTH = 0x3;
private const uint ESB_ENABLE_BOTH = 0x0;

Created a method so as to use it for all the ListView's throught the application

public  void HideHorizontalScrollBar(ListView lv,int value, bool isNeeded)
{
    ShowScrollBar(lv.Handle, value, isNeeded);
}

Now referenced this method inside the Contructor of the MainForm just after the InitializeComponent()

 private void ListViewHorrizontalScrollBar()
{
    //0 for horrizontal
    //1 for vertical

    _ListViewScrollOperation.HideHorizontalScrollBar(this.lvAntSetExcludedFiles, 0, false);
    _ListViewScrollOperation.HideHorizontalScrollBar(this.lvAntSetExcludedFiles, 1, true);
}

Now this thing works perfectly for me. However I just have a small problem. Even if there are Only 2 Values still the Vertical ScrollBar is visible. Even if there isnt any data in the ListView still the Vertical ScrollBar is Visible.

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Also I'm not able to navigate from Top-Bottom or from Bottom-Top using the Up and Down arrow keys of the Keyboard since the Scrollable Property of the ListView is set to false. So is there anything else that I can do to tackle with the Issue?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks In Advance

It looks like [XY problem](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377). Are you trying to disable horizontal scrollbar, because you set column header too long? — Sinatr, Apr 30 '14 at 12:39
@Sinatr I tried changing the Column Header many times but still was facing the issue so only i posted over here. — Vikneshwar, Apr 30 '14 at 13:45
Try to use [auto-size](http://stackoverflow.com/q/1257500/1997232) column width. — Sinatr, Apr 30 '14 at 13:56

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

After much of Googling and little hint from Sinatr I finally came up with the solution. And of course as the comment states I was in a XY Problem. So this is what I did.

I first changed the Scrollable property of the ListView to true.
Removed the Chunk of codes that I mentioned above in my question.

And here is the extra lines of code that I added just after the ListView

lv.Items.Clear();
foreach (string newval in stringlist)
    lv.Items.Add(newval);
lv.Columns[0].AutoResize(ColumnHeaderAutoResizeStyle.None);
lv.Columns[0].Width = 'Your own size';
lv.Columns[0].AutoResize(ColumnHeaderAutoResizeStyle.ColumnContent);

Doing which I achieved the following things

Disabled Horizontal ScrollBar
Navigation Using Up-Down arrows
The vertical ScrollBar doesnot appear unwantedly.

Disable the Horizontal ScrollBar from ListView in Winforms

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