Question

I’m creating a logger application thing to learn WPF, and I want new messages to appear at the bottom of a scrollviewer every time some listener picks up a new message. I want each message to create something that looks like this:

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= Source | Message               =
=        |                       =
=        |                       =
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I’ve got 2 WPF books here, and they both have “warnings” saying that there are other simpler and better mechanisms than custom/user controls in most cases. I was wondering if this can be solved using control templates, and if so, what control type should I use as a base?

Answer 1

Try using using a ListView and setting its View to a GridView.

<ListView>
    <ListView.View>
        <GridView>
            <GridViewColumn Header="Source" Width="120" />
            <GridViewColumn Header="Message" Width="400" />
        </GridView>
    </ListView.View>
</ListView>

Refer: How to: Display ListView Contents by Using a GridView