Styling a listbox in C#

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Hi There,

Is there any way for me to style my list box in c# to look like the image provided? Or similar to the image? My application looks really dull if my listbox (Which is displaying the birthdays of members from the current week) is just plain. I would really like if the listbox items can look like the image provided or close to it at least. Or just MUCH better than the normal plain old c# list box !! :P

Image of the listbox

Posted 11-Aug-14 10:46am

Christopher Smit

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Aug-14 17:01pm

It all depends on what do you mean by "ListBox". Which one? Full type name, please.
—SA

Christopher Smit 11-Aug-14 17:06pm

The listbox control where users can select an item from the list of items. Its just marked as "ListBox" under "Common Controls" in Visual Studio. I figured that would be the best way to display the list of birthdays?

Dave Kreskowiak 11-Aug-14 18:14pm

He meant what type of app are you writing? Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ....???

Christopher Smit 12-Aug-14 12:33pm

Oh Sorry.. I'm writing a Winform. Don't have much knowledge on the WPF.

[no name] 11-Aug-14 17:26pm

http://www.bing.com/search?q=c%23+owner+draw+listbox

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Yvan Rodrigues · Answer 1 · 2014-08-11T14:31:00

Short answer:

You are either using something like
System.Windows.Forms.ListView (Windows Forms) OR
Windows.UI.Controls.ListView (WPF)

For someone like me with many years of experience with both, in terms of difficulty, planning, and time required:

Windows Forms is more difficult and would take 4-8 hours for something well built. Look up overriding OnPaint

WPF is half of that. Look up customization of control templates.