c# - How do I get the start index and number of visible items in a ListView?

Question

I have a listview working in virtual mode, in the LargeIcons view. Retrieves are expensive, so I want to ask for the data for all the visible items. How do I get the start index and total number of the visible items?

Update: I am aware of the CacheVirtualItems event. The third-party database we're using takes ~3s to retrieve a single record, but ~4s to retrieve a thousand records, so I have to do them in large blocks. I need to make sure the visible records are among those we retrieve, so I need to know the start index and total number of the visible items. If that's not feasible, I'll have to find a workaround (which will probably involve using a DataGridView with a load of image cells to imitate the LargeIcons view) but I would like to do this properly if possible.

Answer 1

THE REAL Answer is :
* get the ScrollViewer of the ListView.
* ScrollViewer.VerticalOffset is the index of first shown item.
* ScrollViewer.ViewportHeight is the number of items shown.

To get the ScrollViewer, you will need a function, FindDescendant(FrameworkElement, Type) that will search within the childs of the ListView. Call it after Window was loaded.

Code in VB.Net and in C# :

Public Function FindDescendant(ByVal MyElementToSeek As FrameworkElement, _
                                  ByVal TypeToFind As Type) As FrameworkElement
    If MyElementToSeek Is Nothing Then Return Nothing
    If MyElementToSeek.GetType() = TypeToFind Then Return MyElementToSeek
    For i = 0 To VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(MyElementToSeek) - 1
        Dim OneChild = TryCast(VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(MyElementToSeek, i), FrameworkElement)
        Dim Result = FindDescendant(OneChild, TypeToFind)
        If Result IsNot Nothing Then Return Result
    Next
    Return Nothing
End Function

.

public FrameworkElement FindDescendant(FrameworkElement MyElementToSeek, 
                                         Type TypeToFind) 
{
    if (MyElementToSeek == null) return null;
    if (MyElementToSeek.GetType() == TypeToFind) return MyElementToSeek;
    for (i = 0; 
               (i<= (VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(MyElementToSeek) - 1)); i++) 
      {
        object OneChild = TryCast(VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(MyElementToSeek, i),
                                                         FrameworkElement);
        object Result = FindDescendant(OneChild, TypeToFind);
        if (Result) return Result;
        }
     return null;
    }
}

    ' MyScrollViewer = FindDescendant(MyListView, ScrollViewer)