ListView vs. ListBox for multiple column usage

Question

I am currently struggling with the GUI of my application. I have a hard time figuring out whether the ListBox or ListView is more \"suitable\" for multi-column representation of

Answer 1

Check this out

https://stackoverflow.com/a/227355/988830

Though listbox is used for single column and listview is used for mutlicolumn, the answer is it all depends.

Sometimes you may need multicolumn list where you need to add different types of children. You cannot bind them using listview so its better to use listbox in such scenarios. But if you want to sort them by using header, do use listview because it is simple.

In conclusion, I would say if you just have multi column data and nothing more better to use listview else if you want to do fancy stuff like buttons, treeview, expander etc. ListBox is really cool.

Thanks, Omkar