Very strange, Pete. I tried different variations of this and it still works for me every time. So, either your row, dr["PayDetailsConf"], does not contain true when you think it does, or there is code elsewhere that is un-checking your items. Have you stepped through the code in the debugger?
~~Bonnie
>Hi Bonnie, the rest of the code is simply adding more subitems and obviously adding the item to the listview, as I stated, the first item in the list is checked, here's the code anyway
>
>
>private void LoadListView()
> {
>
> this.lvClaims.Items.Clear();
> ListViewItem lvItem;
> string ClaimRef;
> string PathToDBOForm;
>
> foreach (DataRow dr in this.dsClaims.Tables[0].Rows)
> {
> lvItem = new ListViewItem(dr["PayDetailsConf"].ToString());
> lvItem.Text = "";
> lvItem.Checked = (bool)(dr["PayDetailsConf"]);
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(dr["PayDetailsConfDate"].ToString());
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(dr["PayDetailsConfUser"].ToString());
> ClaimRef = dr["ClaimRef"].ToString();
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(ClaimRef);
>
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(dr["CreditorName"].ToString());
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(dr["ClaimStatus"].ToString());
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(dr["AdmitList"].ToString());
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(dr["PayBlockCode"].ToString());
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(String.Format("{0:#,#,#,#.00}", dr["AdmittedBalUSD"]));
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(DateUtils.ShortDate(dr["Article39LetterDate"].ToString(), null));
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(DateUtils.ShortDate(dr["Article39AmendDate"].ToString(), null));
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(dr["Article39Code"].ToString());
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(dr["PayDetailsID"].ToString());
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(dr["PayAddressID"].ToString());
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(dr["Article39Narrative"].ToString());
>
>
> PathToDBOForm = this.BuildPath(ClaimRef);
>
> if (File.Exists(PathToDBOForm))
> {
> lvItem.SubItems.Add(PathToDBOForm);
> lvItem.ImageIndex = 1;
> }
>
> this.lvClaims.Items.Add(lvItem);
> }
> }
>
