Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

6.6. List Controls

WPF includes many controls that wrap a collection of items, ranging from the simple ListBox and ComboBox that you'll examine here to more specialized controls such as the ListView, the TreeView, and the ToolBar, which are covered in future chapters. All of these controls derive from the ItemsControl class (which itself derives from Control).

The ItemsControl class fills in the basic plumbing that's used by all list-based controls. Notably, it gives you two ways to fill the list of items. The most straightforward approach is to add them directly to the Items collection, using code or XAML. However, in WPF, it's more common to use data binding. In this case, you set the ItemsSource property to the object that has the collection ...