> I am kinda new at this, and I inherited this application a few months ago.

> I have a sorted ListView control whose collection of ListItems exceeds the
> physical lower boundary of the control.  When a user manipulates an item
in
> the list that is beyond that boundary , I would like to keep the item
> visible.  On MSDN I found out how to do that when I add an item, by using
> the EnsureVisible property.  However, now I have a problem.

> When deleting an item, I would like to EnsureVisible the item just after
the
> deleted item in the ListView if it exists, or the item just above it
> otherwise, if it exists.  The collection is indexed by key, as opposed to
> index, and the collection is not sorted but the ListView is.  An example
of
> the key is "CHAN24".  Is there an easier way to find out the key of the
> immediately succeeding or preceding item in the ListView other than
getting
> the numeric portion of the deleted key with Val( ), and then adding or
> subtracting from it, doing a bunch more type conversions etc., and
checking
> to see if that key even exists?  And if that is what I have to do, could
> someone please tell me how to test for the existence of a key.  I know how
> to set up the loop and all, but not how to simply check for the existence
of
> the key once inside the loop.

> Thank you,
> Clark