#968 – ListBox Data Binding Basics, part V

If you want to display the items in a ListBox using something more than a simple string, you can set the ItemTemplate of the ListBox and define the exact layout of each item.  When you set the ItemTemplate, you don’t set the DisplayMemberPath property.  DisplayMemberPath simple defines the template for each item in the ListBox to be a TextBlock that displays a single string.

In the example below, we set an item template for a ListBox that binds to a collection of Actor objects so that we display an image and some information about the actor, for each item.

        <ListBox Margin="15" Width="250" Height="250"
                 ItemsSource="{Binding ActorList}"
                 SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedActor}">
            <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                        <Image Source="{Binding Image}" Height="80"/>
                        <StackPanel Margin="5">
                            <TextBlock Text="{Binding FullName}" FontSize="12" FontWeight="Bold"/>
                            <TextBlock Text="{Binding Dates}"/>
                            <TextBlock Text="{Binding KnownFor}" Margin="0,5,0,0" FontStyle="Italic"/>
                        </StackPanel>
                    </StackPanel>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        </ListBox>