I cannot Set the image of child nodes to be empty.

So far i’ve written this:

        private void InitializeTreeView()
        {
            treeView1 = new TreeView();
            treeView1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
            treeView1.ShowLines = false;
            treeView1.ShowPlusMinus = false;
            treeView1.ShowRootLines = false;

            ImageList imageList = new ImageList();

            imageList.Images.Add($"Image", Image.FromFile($"IMAGE.PNG"));

            treeView1.ImageList = imageList;

            TreeNode rootNode = new TreeNode("Root Node", 0, 0);

            TreeNode childNode1 = new TreeNode("Child Node 1");

            TreeNode childNode2 = new TreeNode("Child Node 2");

            rootNode.Nodes.Add(childNode1);
            rootNode.Nodes.Add(childNode2);

            treeView1.Nodes.Add(rootNode);

            treeView1.ExpandAll();

            this.Controls.Add(treeView1);
        }

i’ve tried setting the Imageindex to -1 (read somewhere that it makes it empty) that didn’t work.

what i’m currently getting is this:
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but what i want is the ChildNodes to not have any images.

i tried just making a empty PNG which removes the image. but makes it look really weird.

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anyone got a better solution to this?