Better ListView Express free listview control for .NET 2.0 or higher. It is written from scratch in pure managed C# code. It has many additional new features. Better ListView Express both greatly improves the user experience and saves you development time.

Why choose Better ListView Express?
* Free!
* Written from scratch in pure managed code (C#)
* Does not inherit from regular ListView
* Light-weight, flexible and powerful
* More features
* More user-friendly
* Very little learning time needed – all objects, properties and methods simply have «Better» prefix
* No dependencies, single DLL deployment
* Optimized and fast
* Used in real world applications by thousands of users (= thoroughly tested)
* Maniacal attention to detail (created by perfectionists)

The new features include:
* Supports modern native Windows themes
* Flicker free and double-buffered
* Enhanced image support (sub-item images, column images, group images, automatic intelligent resizing, and more)
* Improved drag & drop support and behavior
* Improved checkboxes (usable in all view modes, three-state checkboxes support, better behavior)
* Improved selections behavior (mimics Windows Explorer)
* Auto-scroll while reordering items and column headers
* Rich ListView event data
* Customizable searching by typing
* XML and binary serialization for easy saving/loading of contents

In the perfect world, Better ListView Express would be included with Visual Studio. It is the best freeware alternative ListView control available for .NET WinForms. The full paid version has even more features.