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description: "Learn more about: Using CListCtrl"
title: "Using CListCtrl"
ms.date: "11/04/2016"
helpviewer_keywords: ["CListCtrl class [MFC], using"]
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# Using CListCtrl

Use a list control to display any arrangement of icons with labels, as in File Explorer, or columnar lists of text, with or without icons. For a description of the four possible "views" (not to be confused with MFC views) you can have in a list control — icon view, small icon view, list view, and report view — see Views in the [CListCtrl](../mfc/reference/clistctrl-class.md) class overview.

In some views, users can drag icons to different positions or edit icon labels. For example, see the right-hand pane in File Explorer, which uses a list control in a nondialog window. You can experiment with the available views in Explorer's View menu.

For related information, see [About List-View Controls](/windows/win32/Controls/list-view-controls-overview) in the Windows SDK.

> [!NOTE]
> The Windows SDK refers to list controls as "list view controls." This usage of "view" does not refer to MFC view classes, particularly `CListView`. For more information, see [List Control and List View](../mfc/list-control-and-list-view.md).

## What do you want to know more about

- [List Control and List View](../mfc/list-control-and-list-view.md)

- [List Items and Image Lists](../mfc/list-items-and-image-lists.md)

- [Callback Items and the Callback Mask](../mfc/callback-items-and-the-callback-mask.md)

- [Creating the List Control](../mfc/creating-the-list-control.md)

- [Creating the Image Lists](../mfc/creating-the-image-lists.md)

- [Adding Columns to the Control (Report View)](../mfc/adding-columns-to-the-control-report-view.md)

- [Adding Items to the Control](../mfc/adding-items-to-the-control.md)

- [Scrolling, Arranging, Sorting, and Finding in List Controls](../mfc/scrolling-arranging-sorting-and-finding-in-list-controls.md)

- [Implementing Working Areas in List Controls](../mfc/implementing-working-areas-in-list-controls.md)

- [Processing Notification Messages in List Controls](../mfc/processing-notification-messages-in-list-controls.md)

- [Changing List Control Styles](../mfc/changing-list-control-styles.md)

- [Virtual List Controls](../mfc/virtual-list-controls.md)

- [Destroying the List Control](../mfc/destroying-the-list-control.md)

## See also

[Controls](../mfc/controls-mfc.md)