VB.NET: Alternate the Background Color for Rows in a ListView

One way to make your presentation of data on ListView be more readable is to use alternating background color on rows. For today's article, I will try to explain How to do such task in VB.NET. Listview's SubItem has a built-in BackColor to make alternate colors possible. Here is a short code to demonstrate alternating background colors in ListView.

        Dim altcolor1 As Color = Color.Blue
        Dim altcolor2 As Color = Color.Crimson

        Dim lv As ListViewItem = ListView1.Items.Add("Test 1")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 1")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 1")


        lv = ListView1.Items.Add("Test 2")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 2")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 2")
        lv.BackColor = altcolor1


        lv = ListView1.Items.Add("Test 3")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 3")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 3")
        lv.BackColor = altcolor2

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