Stop user from selecting another item in ListView

No, there isn't. You would have to extend the ListView and it's selection change related events and event args to implement this. An easier approach is to ignore mouse clicks and navigation characters, by overriding WndProc. In this case, I have defined a ReadOnly property to enable/disable this behaviour:

class ListViewEx : ListView { private bool _readOnly; public bool ReadOnly { get { return _readOnly; } set { _readOnly = value; } } public ListViewEx() : base() { ReadOnly = false; } protected override void WndProc(ref Message m) { if (this.ReadOnly) { // Ignore mouse clicks if (m.Msg == 0x201 //WM_LBUTTONDOWN || m.Msg == 0x203) //WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK return; // Ignore navigation characters if (m.Msg == 0x0100 //WM_KEYDOWN || m.Msg == 0x0101 //WM_KEYUP || m.Msg == 0x0102) //WM_CHAR { switch ((Keys)(int)m.WParam) { case Keys.Left: case Keys.Right: case Keys.Up: case Keys.Down: case Keys.PageDown: case Keys.PageUp: case Keys.Home: case Keys.End: return; break; default: // Not a navigation key...allow keystroke break; } } } base.WndProc(ref m); } }