You can easily perform search either on the entire list or just a specific column. This topic discusses how you can enable search in the List control.

Search List

To perform search operation, you can use Find method of the C1List class. This method has parameters that let you set the target string, comparison mode, field name to be searched, and much more. It also allows you to specify the row from where the search process should take place and provides various comparison options through the MatchCompareEnum parameter.

The following table describes all the options provided by the MatchCompareEnum enumeration.

Furthermore, you can also use MatchEntry property of the C1List class to specify how search should be performed based on the user's input. The MatchEntry property takes its value from the MatchEntryEnum enumeration which provides Extended, Standard, and None options.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to search a value from the entire list using the Find method.

var found = -1;            
//search in every column
for (int col = 0; col < c1List1.Columns.Count; col++)
{
     //search for the string
     found = c1List1.Find("search", C1.Win.List.MatchCompareEnum.PartiallyEqual, true, 0, col);
     //if found set the selected index
     if (found != -1)
     {
        c1List1.SelectedIndex = found;
        return;
     }
 }

Search in Column

To enable column-wise search in the List, you can use MatchCol property of the C1List class which its value from the MatchColEnum enumeration to specify the column fields to be searched.

The following table describes all the options provided by the MatchColEnum enumeration.

The following code demonstrates how to enable search in all visible columns by setting the MatchCol property to AllCols.

c1List1.MatchCol = C1.Win.List.MatchColEnum.AllCols;