Can I have a Treeview without the tree structure?

Question

Hi all,

Can someone tell me how I can template a treeview control so that it doesn't look like a tree? Basically, I want to remove the indents at various levels as well as the +/- that allow for expansion and collapse.

The actual requirement is that I have a hierarchical data template that is bound to an object collection that is recursive in nature. And I want to display these objects on screen in a flat manner. The best solution would be to get the hierarchical data template to work with an itemscontrol. But sadly, i believe that the itemscontrol does not understand hierarchical templates. So I am forced to use a treeview control and strip all the "tree" features.

Any suggestions will be mighty helpful..

Answer 1

You could probably do this with a template, but if the data doesn't need to be in a hierarchy then it makes more sense to flatten it in the ViewModel - possibly using AutoMapper.