[Skydiver]

I just realized that all the samples never show an example of an empty primary string. Probably because it's not that common. e.g. People would do Place and then Time.

But let's say you really want the ListViewItem text to be empty, then you would do something like:

listView1.Items.Add(new ListViewItem(new string [] {"", "Gotham City"}));
listView1.Items.Add(new ListViewItem(new string[] { "", "Metropolis" }));

[Skydiver]

This would be a saner way to do things:

listView1.Columns.Add("Place", "Place", 100, HorizontalAlignment.Left, 0);
listView1.Columns.Add("Time", "Time", 100, HorizontalAlignment.Left, 0);
listView1.Columns[1].DisplayIndex = 0;    // display time before place
listView1.Columns[0].DisplayIndex = 1;

listView1.Items.Add(new ListViewItem("Gotham City"));
listView1.Items.Add(new ListViewItem("Metropolis"));

[Skydiver]

Since we got retcon'd and you were last asking about filling other columns, here's code posted from last night:

            listView1.View = View.Details;
            listView1.Columns.Add("Place", "Place", 100, HorizontalAlignment.Left, 0);
            listView1.Columns.Add("Time", "Time", 100, HorizontalAlignment.Left, 0);
            listView1.Columns[1].DisplayIndex = 0;
            listView1.Columns[0].DisplayIndex = 1;

            listView1.Items.Add(new ListViewItem("Gotham City"));
            listView1.Items.Add(new ListViewItem("Metropolis"));
            listView1.Items[0].SubItems.Add("Bat!");
            listView1.Items[1].SubItems.Add("Sups!");
            listView1.Items[0].SubItems[1].Text = "Batman";