Just a short note that I wanted to share with all of you.  While searching on how to customize ListBox controls in WPF, I came across this post from 2007: The power of Styles and Templates in WPF.  In this article, Bea demonstrates how to make an everyday WPF ListBox control look like our solar system.  The items in the list are the planets, and she has orbit trails and everything.  Below is the results of her changes.

Yes, that is a ListBox control.  Pretty amazing!

Go read her full article on how she did this.