The ScrollViewer in WPF is pretty handy (and quite flexible) - especially when compared to what you had to work with in WinForms ( ScrollableControl ). 98% of the time, I can make the ScrollViewer do what I need it to for the given situation. Those other 2 percent, though, can get kind of hairy. Fortunately, WPF provides the IScrollInfo interface - which is what we will be talking about today. So what is IScrollInfo ? Well, it is a way to take over the logic behind scrolling, while still maintaining the look and feel of the standard ScrollViewer . Now, first off, why in the world would we want to do that? To answer that question, I'm going to take a an example from a tutorial that is over a year old now - Creating a Custom Panel Control . In that tutorial, we created our own custom WPF panel (that animated!). One of the issues with that panel though (and the WPF WrapPanel in general) is that you have to disable the horizontal scrollbar if you put the panel in a ScrollV