Sergey --

That alternative does not fit what I need. A separate form will be controlling which item in the ListView "appears" to be the selected item, so the selected item can change without the form which contains the ListView ever getting the focus.

Thanks anyway.

>I understand your original question but thought that you may consider an alternative that avoids it altogether.
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>>That's not exactly what I intended to ask ... my question (restated) is:
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>>On a TreeView, are the (default) colors (both backcolor and forecolor) for SelectedItem, always the same color across all users and PCs?
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>>In other words, can I count on the display that I see for the selected item to be the same that all other users see?
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