title: How to add ListViewItem to WPF multicolumn ListView by hand (no binding) in XAML
body: <p>I have a problem with ListView design in Expression Blend that is harder than I thought it should.</p>
  
  <p>I'd like to just draw a screen using XAML. This WILL NOT run inside an application, is just a static design study that should be rendered for viewing in the design window of Expression Blend, exclusively.</p>
  
  <p>I have this so far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;ListView x:Name="examList" SelectionMode="Single"&gt;
      &lt;ListView.View&gt;
          &lt;GridView&gt;
              &lt;GridViewColumn Header="Date" Width="Auto"/&gt;
              &lt;GridViewColumn Header="Setup" Width="Auto"/&gt;
              &lt;GridViewColumn Header="Protocol" Width="Auto" /&gt;
              &lt;GridViewColumn Header="Channels" Width="Auto"/&gt;
              &lt;GridViewColumn Header="Duration" Width="Auto"/&gt;
          &lt;/GridView&gt;
      &lt;/ListView.View&gt;
  
      &lt;ListViewItem&gt;
          &lt;TextBlock Text="stuff" /&gt;  &lt;!-- what should I put here??? --&gt;
      &lt;/ListViewItem&gt;
  &lt;/ListView&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is: I don't have a clue how I should create ListViewItems with one string or number value for each field (each column in the GridView).</p>
  
  <p>I would appreciate any help, with or without code-behind, but a necessary requirement for my workflow is that it renders at design time inside Expression Blend without the need to run the application, and preferrably that the data is not bound from another file, but entered by hand directly into the XAML (I don't mind it, actually I WANT it).</p>
  
  <p>I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/2316024/401828">this answer</a>, but it doesn't do what I need, I think.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for reading!</p>