ste123

OK, im new to VB.NET but have been a visual fox developer for seven years or so. what I'm trying to do is create a listview in detail view with some graphical icons down the side, easy you may think but Ive been going at this for around 4 days now (on and off) and I cant get it to do anything. does anyone know how to populate an imagelist programmaticall so I can attach images (at runtime) into the listview by use of a key (an index will do at the moment) dim imagex as image dim imagelistx as new ImageList imageListx.Images.Item(1).FromFile("g:\hd\datadev\graphics\add.bmp") me.ListView1.SmallImageList = imageListx me.ListView1.Items.Add("test 1") me.ListView1.Items(1).ImageIndex = 1 me.ListView1.Items.Add("test 2") me.ListView1.Items(2).ImageIndex = 1 me.ListView1.Items.Add("test 3") me.ListView1.Items(3).ImageIndex = 1 me.ListView1.Items.Add("test 4") me.ListView1.Items(4).ImageIndex = 1 it dosent work. if anyone could help I would be forever greatful. and its my 30th birthday today so I'd really like to get this going. Any resources would be helpfull. Thanks in advance. Steve.