In my opinion treeviews are overused, therefore I don't really care for them. Sometimes they're necessary but I can imagine that one could always find a good alternative to the standard treeview.
What are some other innovative ways to display hierarchical information that convey the same information without the drab of a treeview? Which one(s) are the best? Should I just be happy with the treeview because that's what everyone knows how to use?
Take a look at Quince for some UI (they call it UX) inspiration. Search for hierarchical.
Examples include patterns such as Cascading Lists and TreeMap.
From those, you can click the "related" button to see even more ideas.
UPDATE: 2014-Sep-21, Sad news from Infragistics: "Quince Pro - We are officially retiring this product." More on their blog under "Product Status Change Notifications". I hope they retain it for a while as reference!
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