When you want to change the height of CListCtrl, you need to use an owner-draw version of CListCtrl and change the font of the control. But when you change the font of the CListCtrl, the control or its parent window does not get a chance to respecify the height of the rows and the effect will not be taken. The reason is that No WM_MEASUREITEM message is sent to the controls parent window.

The following article from CodeProject provided a good solution.

• Changing Row Height in an owner drawn Control

And there is a similar article on CodeGuru.

• Changing row height in owner drawn control