Coloring a specific item in Listbox

I am not sure if it is posible to do this in a listbox unless you implement a custom version of the listbox control. A listbox (as far as I know) cannot distinguish between "subitems" for each item in the list. i.e an item in our case would be each row in the listbox, a subitem would be each number in the row.

If possible by your design, you can replace the listbox with a ListView control that will allow access into SubItem members for each item.

Remember to set the ListView.View property to Details to use this example.

Code below is for C#, but I guess can easily be ported to VB :)

ListView listView = new ListView();

listView.View = View.Details;

ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem();

// individual format for each subitem
lvi.UseItemStyleForSubItems = false;

// create and add subitems with unique formats
ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem lviSubItem1 =
    new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem();
lviSubItem1.Text = "1";
lviSubItem1.ForeColor = Color.Green;

lvi.SubItems.Add(lviSubItemX);
ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem lviSubItem2 =
    new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem();
lviSubItem2.Text = "2";
lviSubItem2.ForeColor = Color.Red;
lvi.SubItems.Add(lviSubItem2);

ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem lviSubItem3 =
    new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem();
lviSubItem3.Text = "3";
lviSubItem3.ForeColor = Color.Blue;
lvi.SubItems.Add(lviSubItem3);

// add the subitem to underlying list of items
listView.Items.Add(lvi);

Hope this helps and if not maybe someone will have a way to do it in listbox, but apart from making a custom listbox I can't think of any way to do it :)

Dave