ListBox - the forgotten control

How did that happen?

I personally think it happened because when we were all looking at WPF to begin with (in CTP days), it was very obvious that there was no Grid.
Then, because of that people noticed that the ListView control had the option to specify a grid version as one of it’s views. That wasn’t so different to Win32 or WinForms, but because of the power of WPF it has been easy to adapt to what we all need.

However, in doing so, we have forgotten about the humble old listbox. As I have re-discovered recently, it is very easy to have multi-column listboxes in WPF.
Therefore when I don’t want to be able to switch views (to icon views etc), but just show Line Of Business style multi-column lists I just might use the ListBox instead. As a warning note, you do lose the ability to generate columns , i.e. you have to do it yourself, but it is really very easy