A common question I see in the msdn forums is How do I databind a Listview control on a windows form.  Unfortunately the windows forms ListView does not support databinding.  The wpf version does support databinding and it pretty host on a windows form. Please note you need to have the .Net Framework 3.0 or greater installed for this.

In VS 2008 you will have a WPF Interoperability tab in the toolbox.  Drag a ElementHost on to your windows forms.  In VS 2005 you will have to add the ElementHost to the toolbox.

For this example I am going to bind the ListView to the list of files in My Documents.  I will be showing the name, size, and last access time.

So we need to create a ListView, a GridView to add to the ListView to show the columns, and 3 columns

Dim lstv As New System.Windows.Controls.ListView
Dim gv As New System.Windows.Controls.GridView
Dim gvcName As New System.Windows.Controls.GridViewColumn
Dim gvcSize As New System.Windows.Controls.GridViewColumn
Dim gvcLast As New System.Windows.Controls.GridViewColumn

For each column we have to set the header text, create a binding, and a FrameworkElementFactory to show the data . 

With gvcName
    .Header = "Name"
    Dim bName As New System.Windows.Data.Binding
    bName.Mode = Windows.Data.BindingMode.OneWay
    bName.Path = New System.Windows.PropertyPath("Name")
    Dim feName As New FrameworkElementFactory(GetType(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock))
    Dim dtName As New DataTemplate
    feName.SetBinding(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock.TextProperty, bName)
    dtName.VisualTree = feName
    .DisplayMemberBinding = bName
    .CellTemplate = dtName
End With

Add the column to the GridView

gv.Columns.Add(gvcName)

Then add the GridView to the ListView

lstv.View = gv

Now we can bind the ListView to a file list and add it to the ElementHost.

lstv.ItemsSource = di.GetFiles
ElementHost1.Child = lstv

Full Listing of code

Imports System.Windows.Forms.Integration
Imports System.Windows

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim di As New IO.DirectoryInfo(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments))
        Dim lstv As New System.Windows.Controls.ListView
        Dim gv As New System.Windows.Controls.GridView
        Dim gvcName As New System.Windows.Controls.GridViewColumn
        Dim gvcSize As New System.Windows.Controls.GridViewColumn
        Dim gvcLast As New System.Windows.Controls.GridViewColumn

        With gvcName
            .Header = "Name"
            Dim bName As New System.Windows.Data.Binding
            bName.Mode = Windows.Data.BindingMode.OneWay
            bName.Path = New System.Windows.PropertyPath("Name")
            Dim feName As New FrameworkElementFactory(GetType(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock))
            Dim dtName As New DataTemplate
            feName.SetBinding(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock.TextProperty, bName)
            dtName.VisualTree = feName
            .DisplayMemberBinding = bName
            .CellTemplate = dtName
        End With

        With gvcSize
            .Header = "Length"
            Dim bSize As New System.Windows.Data.Binding
            bSize.Mode = Windows.Data.BindingMode.OneWay
            bSize.Path = New System.Windows.PropertyPath("Length")
            Dim feSize As New FrameworkElementFactory(GetType(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock))
            Dim dtSize As New DataTemplate
            feSize.SetBinding(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock.TextProperty, bSize)
            dtSize.VisualTree = feSize
            .DisplayMemberBinding = bSize
            .CellTemplate = dtSize
        End With

        With gvcLast
            .Header = "Last Access"
            Dim bLast As New System.Windows.Data.Binding
            bLast.Mode = Windows.Data.BindingMode.OneWay
            bLast.Path = New System.Windows.PropertyPath("LastAccessTime")
            Dim feLast As New FrameworkElementFactory(GetType(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock))
            Dim dtLast As New DataTemplate
            feLast.SetBinding(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock.TextProperty, bLast)
            dtLast.VisualTree = feLast
            .DisplayMemberBinding = bLast
            .CellTemplate = dtLast
        End With
        gv.Columns.Add(gvcName)
        gv.Columns.Add(gvcSize)
        gv.Columns.Add(gvcLast)
        lstv.View = gv

        lstv.ItemsSource = di.GetFiles
        ElementHost1.Child = lstv
    End Sub
End Class