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I'm considering either a ListBox or a ListView for a WPF application. It seems either supports data binding and item templates. My application has a simple list of items that I intend to be able to search/sort/filter based on user input. The data binding demo (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms771319.aspx) uses a ListBox with a CollectionViewSource.
Does anyone have pros/cons for which control to use and when?
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To bind a ComboBox or ListBox control If you are binding to a table, set the DisplayMember property to the name of a column in the data source. If you are binding to an IList, set the display member to a public property of the type in the list.
Advertisements. ListBox is a control that provides a list of items to the user item selection. A user can select one or more items from the predefined list of items at a time. In a ListBox, multiple options are always visible to the user without any user interaction.
A ListView is a specialized ListBox (that is, it inherits from ListBox). It allows you to specify different views rather than a straight list. You can either roll your own view, or use GridView (think explorer-like "details view"). It's basically the multi-column listbox, the cousin of windows form's listview.
If you don't need the additional capabilities of ListView, you can certainly use ListBox if you're simply showing a list of items (Even if the template is complex).
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