Selection of first item in ListView on Load

[mHos]

I am having trouble with the listView in VB.NET. This seemed to be working the other day, and now it isn't. Now I get an error -> it tells my that my index is out of bounds of the collection or array size (or something like that).

DETAILS:
I have a listview in report mode. I have added my column headers and all of my items. Then I want it to select my first item, and I call the lv_Click() function.

In the lv_Click function I do certain things based on the index of the selected item.

PROBLEM:
in the load function, i do
lv.items(0).select = true
lv_Click(sender, new system.eventArgs())


when I check out the lv.selectedItems.count , it is =0. Everything that I have found says that when you do
lv.items(0).select = true, that it should select it, but it isn't being put into the lv.selecteditems collection. How do I make it do it?

 

[mHos]

I figured it out. I move those two calls to a pre-Load function, and that is why it was having problems.

I found that if I did everything else in a pre-load function, and then just did those two calls in the load function, that it worked.