I tested your code and it works good when I am testing it.
Just a sugestion add lvwItems.BeginUpdate(); before your while loop and lvwItems.EndUpdate(); after your while loop.

Are us sure there are always atleast 3 strings (separated by ,) per line in your file?

>I cannot for the life of me see why this doesn't work. The columns are there and sized ok, and the ListItems collection is receiving the items - I just don't see anything.
>
>Anyone?
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>private bool LoadCSVFile(string sFileName)
>{
>    bool bRetVal = false;
>
>    lvwItems.Items.Clear();
>
>    StreamReader oReader = new StreamReader(sFileName);
>
>    string sLine;
>    while ((sLine = oReader.ReadLine()) != null)
>    {
>        string[] aWords = sLine.Split(',');
>
>        ListViewItem oNewItem = new ListViewItem(aWords[0]);
>        oNewItem.SubItems.Add(aWords[1]);
>        oNewItem.SubItems.Add(aWords[2]);
>
>        lvwItems.Items.Add(oNewItem);
>    }
>
>    return bRetVal;
>}
>
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