Generate WPF ListView columns automatically

Sometimes it’s not necessary to display a list of elements with a DataGrid, for a simple short way we can use the lighter ListView. My solution, also posted at stackoverflow, generates a ListView with columns for all properties with a given datatype automatically.

public class BaseListView : ListView
{
  public Type DataType { get; set; }

  protected override void OnPropertyChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
  {
    base.OnPropertyChanged(e);

    if (e.Property.Name == "ItemsSource"
        && e.OldValue != e.NewValue
        && e.NewValue != null
        && this.DataType != null)
    {
      CreateColumns(this);
    }
  }

  private static void CreateColumns(BaseListView lv)
  {
    var gridView = new GridView { AllowsColumnReorder = true };

    var properties = lv.DataType.GetProperties();
    foreach (var pi in properties)
    {
      var browsableAttribute = pi.GetCustomAttributes(true).FirstOrDefault(a => a is BrowsableAttribute) as BrowsableAttribute;
      if (browsableAttribute != null && !browsableAttribute.Browsable)
      {
        continue;
      }

      var binding = new Binding { Path = new PropertyPath(pi.Name), Mode = BindingMode.OneWay };
      var gridViewColumn = new GridViewColumn() { Header = pi.Name, DisplayMemberBinding = binding };
      gridView.Columns.Add(gridViewColumn);
    }

    lv.View = gridView;
  }
}

<Grid>
  <local:BaseListView x:Name="listView"
                      DataType="{x:Type DummyType}"
                      ItemsSource="{Binding Mode=OneWay, Path=DummyTypeList}" />
</Grid>

That’s it.