WPF UserControl exposing inner listitems - wpf

Question

I'm trying to write a UserControl to display a list of items where each of these items is a title and a group of checkboxes. This whole will represent a form of data where the person filling it in is answering a list of questions with a 1 to 4 value. This all works and binds nicely to the window's ViewModel.
But I've currently got the answers hardcoded in the UserControl as follows:
<ListBox
ItemsPanel="{StaticResource HorizontalScores}"
Style="{StaticResource styleOuterListBox}"
ItemContainerStyle="{StaticResource styleOuterListBoxItem}">
<ListBoxItem>Never</ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem>Sometimes</ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem>Often</ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem>Always</ListBoxItem>
</ListBox>
I would like to set these from the window's XAML or from the ViewModel as they will be different for other forms but can't see the correct incantation. How do I remove the ListBoxItems from the UserControl and use databinding instead?
BigEdit ...
Ok, this is the actual user control (it looks hideous but that's not the point):
<UserControl x:Class="BussPerry.Scorer" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:vm="clr-namespace:BussPerry.ViewModel" xmlns:local="clr-namespace:BussPerry">
<UserControl.Resources>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="SelectedBackgroundBrush" Color="Gray" />
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="SelectedForegroundBrush" Color="Red" />
<ItemsPanelTemplate x:Key="HorizontalScores">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
<Style x:Key="styleListBox" TargetType="{x:Type ListBox}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListBox}">
<ItemsPresenter Margin="2" />
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
<Style x:Key="styleListBoxItem" TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}">
<CheckBox Name="CheckBox" Padding="1" Width="60"
IsChecked="{Binding Path=IsSelected, Mode=TwoWay, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}">
<ContentPresenter HorizontalAlignment="Center"/>
</CheckBox>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="True">
<Setter TargetName="CheckBox" Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource SelectedBackgroundBrush}" />
<Setter TargetName="CheckBox" Property="Foreground" Value="{StaticResource SelectedForegroundBrush}" />
</Trigger>
</ControlTemplate.Triggers>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</UserControl.Resources>
<ListBox ItemsPanel="{StaticResource HorizontalScores}" Style="{StaticResource styleListBox}"
ItemContainerStyle="{StaticResource styleListBoxItem}" SelectedIndex="{Binding Path=Score}">
<ListBoxItem>Never</ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem>Sometimes</ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem>Often</ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem>Always</ListBoxItem>
</ListBox>
</UserControl>
And it's being called as follows:
<ListView
Name="listviewScores"
ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Scores}"
Margin="5"
BorderThickness="0"
Background="Transparent"
Focusable="False"
Grid.Row="3">
<ListView.View>
<GridView
ColumnHeaderContainerStyle="{StaticResource styleHiddenHeader}">
<GridView.Columns>
<GridViewColumn>
<GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock
Text="{Binding Path=Index}"
HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
</DataTemplate>
</GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
</GridViewColumn>
<GridViewColumn
DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=Title}" />
<GridViewColumn >
<GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<local:Scorer >
</local:Scorer>
</DataTemplate>
</GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
</GridViewColumn>
</GridView.Columns>
</GridView>
</ListView.View>
</ListView>
What I want to do is to move the Never/Sometimes/Often/Always listboxitems from being hard coded in the user control to be databound.
(Suggestions of "you don't want to do it like that" are also welcome!)

Answer 1

(one year later...)
I think your question is similar to mine. I have come up with a technique to expose the ItemsSource of an inner control on a UserControl. The link to my question is here:
Exposing inner Control properties for binding in WPF
I know that my solution works. What I don't know is if it violates some sacred 'best practices' out there in WPF. It 'feels' right though.

Answer 2

Do you want to bind a collection to a listbox?
It's pretty simple...
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Answers}" />
where Answers is your collection exposed in your ViewModel.
If you're having trouble creating a custom control that exposes an ItemsSource, then you just need to inherit from ItemsControl instead of just UserControl.
EDIT:
Some assumptions:
the DataContext of the ListBox, custom control, or higher parent element is set to your
ViewModel.
the ViewModel has a
property called "Answers".
the Answers property implements
IEnumerable<>.