A WPF ListView is a possible replacement for a datagrid, when it doesn't have to support advanced features like grouping or filtering of rows. If you use a ListView in your WPF application, and set the "View" property of this ListView to be a GridView. A ListView/GridView even supports features like reordering and resizing columns. Unfortunately, it is not possible to define a minimum or maximum width for the columns. Fortunately, it is not really to do this in the code behind. Let's see how. First we need to understand how exactly the resizing of a GridView column works. When a column can be resized, a narrow vertical line appears on the right side of the column. Passing the mouse over this line turns the cursor into a "resize" cursor. To find out what exactly this line is made of, we can use a tool like Snoop , or Mole . These tools display the inner structure of a WPF UI, also known as the Visual Tree. For example, in Mole, we can navigate down to our ListView and display the header Read More...