Listing items in a Listbox control

In WPF, the ListBox control is used to display a list of items. Users can select one or more items from the list, depending on the SelectionMode specified.

In this recipe, we are going to learn how to create a ListBox control and use it in WPF applications.

Getting ready

Open your Visual Studio IDE and create a new WPF application project, called CH02.ListBoxDemo.

How to do it...

Adding a ListBox control in the UI is as easy as writing a <ListBox /> tag in any XAML page. But to hold the data in it, you will have to use its properties properly. Follow these steps to add a ListBox control with some static data:

1. Open the MainWindow.xaml page of the WPF project.
2. Under the default Grid panel, add the <ListBox></ListBox> tag to add the control.
3. Add a few ListBoxItem inside the control, as shared here:

<ListBox x:Name="lstBox" 
         Width="120" Height="85" 
         Margin="10 10 20 5"> 
    <ListBoxItem Content="Item 1" /> 
    <ListBoxItem...