WPF binding to a non dependency property on a control template

I'm creating a WPF custom control as a开发者_如何学运维n auto learning exercise. My control has a ListView inside the template. I wanto my control user be able on defining the needed columns in his own Xaml, but I did not get the strategy on how to pass the columns to the inner listview since binding with FindAncestor complain that "Columns" is not a DependencyProperty. Wekk the questions are:

1. How to achieve bind a property from xaml to the template when it is not a DP
2. Correct my design: I think there is something wrong: if someone would change completely my template, how should I let him use the Column collection ?

why not inherit from ListView directly? Then you have all the properties you need for the ListView and can also add you own properties to the class.

Then you can apply a custom Style to your control to make it look like you want. (Here you have a basic ListView Style that you can use and expand to your needs)

Sometimes binding to a property that is not a dependency property can be solved using the Binding Mode OneWayToSource

Have you tried that?