How to Customize ListView Column Headers

Question

I am fairly new to programming and I have never attempted writing my own class before. I would like to try. What I am trying to achieve is to write my own (basic) listview control to start with. I am struggling with the first bit...

As a start I want to try and centre all of the Column Headers but keep the row text using their own formatting. I would like to implement a custom property if possible, but to start with I just want to override the DrawColumnHeader event.

Can someone point me in the right direction (maybe an example). I have setup a new class, inherited the listview control and added the following event:

Protected Overrides Sub OnDrawColumnHeader(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DrawListViewColumnHeaderEventArgs)

However, I am finding that any code I place in this event isn't getting fired when the listview gets drawn.

Answer 1

Reason was that I didn't have the OwnerDraw property set to True.