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

Chapter 22. Lists, Grids, and Trees

So far, you've learned a wide range of techniques and tricks for using WPF data binding to display information in the form you need. Along the way, you've seen many examples that revolve around the lowly ListBox control.

Thanks to the extensibility provided by styles, data templates, and control templates, even the ListBox (and its similarly equipped sibling, the ComboBox) can serve as remarkably powerful tools for displaying data in a variety of ways. However, some types of data presentation would be difficult to implement with the ListBox alone. Fortunately, WPF has a few rich data controls that fill in the blanks, including the following:

• ListView. The ListView derives from the plain-vanilla ListBox. It ...