How to add Input Images to List view at runtime using VB.NET

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I have taken input of 5 images from user and showed it in photogallery now I want these images in list view too. How should I pass them in list view simultaneously. I tried the below code but it shows images in photogallery not in listview.

VB

Private Sub BrowseMultipleFilesButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BrowseMultipleFilesButton.Click
    Dim OpenFileDialog1 As New OpenFileDialog
    OpenFileDialog1.Filter =
    "Images (*.BMP;*.JPG;*.GIF,*.PNG,*.TIFF)|*.BMP;*.JPG;*.GIF;*.PNG;*.TIFF|" +
    "All files (*.*)|*.*"
    OpenFileDialog1.Multiselect = True
    Dim index As New Integer
    OpenFileDialog1.Title = "Select Photos"
    If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
    If OpenFileDialog1.FileNames.Length > 5 Then
    MessageBox.Show("Please select no more than 5 files")
    Exit Sub
    End If
    If OpenFileDialog1.FileNames.Length < 5 Then
    MessageBox.Show("Please select 5 files")
    Exit Sub
    End If
    For Each file As String In OpenFileDialog1.FileNames
    Dim imageControl As New PictureBox()
    imageControl.Height = 100
    imageControl.Width = 100
    Dim myCallback As New Image.GetThumbnailImageAbort(AddressOf ThumbnailCallback)
    Dim myBitmap As New Bitmap(file)
    Dim myThumbnail As Image = myBitmap.GetThumbnailImage(96, 96, myCallback, IntPtr.Zero)
    imageControl.Image = myThumbnail
    PhotoGallary.Controls.Add(imageControl)
    Dim imageListLarge As New ImageList()
    imageListLarge.Images.Add(myBitmap)
    ListView_images.LargeImageList = imageListLarge
    Me.Controls.Add(ListView_images)
    Next
    btn_Save.Enabled = True
    BrowseMultipleFilesButton.Enabled = False
    End If
    End Sub

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-12T04:43:00

Of course you can do it by updating the appropriate image list and ListView content in sync (what's the problem?) but why? The problem is not that you cannot do it, the problem is that the image showing mechanism is designed for a very different functionality: showing a set of fixed images choosing them by their indices in a list of images. In this approach, the images themselves are not considered as part of data.

With a photo gallery, the image itself is the key part of data. So, instead of building a cumbersome work around, better change the design. If you want to stay with ListView (but why? are you sure?), one appropriate technique would be custom draw:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.ownerdraw%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.drawitem%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

But who told you it should be the ListView (itself quite a cumbersome control)?
It would be way more natural to use System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView with some instances of System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewImageCell, preferably by having one or more whole columns of the type System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewImageColumn:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridviewimagecolumn(v=vs.110).aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridviewimagecell%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridview%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

Much simpler, isn't it?

—SA