Changing Panels and DataTemplates with ItemsControls in WPF/Avalon

posted by  varson (7)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I have posted before about the philosophy behind the ItemsControl, and now I will pull together some concepts from previous posts. I will use the RadialPanel and some ValueConverter magic to show how we can take a ListBox (the most famous of the ItemsControl family) and have it:

• Respond to changes to a data collection.
  
• Swap between using a radial and stacking panel.
  
• Swap between showing the text of the items and showing the hash of the items.

One of the first things we need to do in order to build this sample is make a subclass of the RadialPanel that doe