Your welcome Pete, the problem is that the Subitems.add doesn't have an overloaded methos that would accept the name and the value, and also the listviewsubitem class doesn't have a contructor that accepts that also, so you need to create the subitem 1st and then set the name and text properties.
>thanks Alexandre, what a lot of code just to populate a glorified listbox !, thanks again
Alexandre Palma
Senior Application Architect