Using WrapPanel and ScrollViewer to give a multi-column Listbox in WPF

Question

I’m making a simple LOB app which loads data from an XML file and displays it in a list with a few buttons for editing.

In my first attempt, everything was ok except

Answer 1

It seems like you were on the right track: replacing the ItemsPanelTemplate in the ListBox with a WrapPanel, setting WrapPanel's Orientation to Vertical, and setting ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBar to Disabled should be all you need to do.

This works for me:

That should cause it to render out a full column vertically, wrap, and then continue on the next column, scrolling as necessary horizontally (but not vertically), as in the picture:

The key things in this implementation are

1. Setting Orientation="Vertical" on the WrapPanel so that things wrap vertically and not horizontally, and
2. Setting ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" on the ListBox so that the ScrollViewer knows to restrict its height to the available space.