The ListView.FocusedItem property returns the System.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem that represents the item currently displaying the focus rectangle for the System.Windows.Forms.ListView control. Because a System.Windows.Forms.ListView control has no directly editable areas other than the items it displays, when the System.Windows.Forms.ListView control has focus, an item within the System.Windows.Forms.ListView displays the focus reticle around its item text. Typically, the last selected item in the System.Windows.Forms.ListView control is the item with focus. Although an item may be the one displaying the focus reticle, it may not actually be a selected item in the System.Windows.Forms.ListView. Use the ListView.SelectedItems or ListView.SelectedIndices properties to obtain the selected items in the System.Windows.Forms.ListView control, the ListView.FocusedItem property is not necessarily selected. You can use the ListView.FocusedItem property to determine which item was last clicked in the System.Windows.Forms.ListView control, regardless of selection state.