ListBoxItem produces "System.Windows.Data Error: 4" binding error

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I have created the fallowing ListBox:

<ListBox x:Name="RecentItemsListBox" Grid.Row="1" BorderThickness="0" Margin="2,0,0,0" SelectionChanged="RecentItemsListBox_SelectionChanged">
  <ListBox.Resources>
      <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}"
             BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type ListBoxItem}}">
          <Style.Triggers>
              <!--This trigger is needed, because RelativeSource binding can only succeeds if the current ListBoxItem is already connected to its visual parent-->
              <Trigger Property="IsVisible" Value="True">
                  <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment"
                          Value="{Binding Path=HorizontalContentAlignment, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType={x:Type ItemsControl}}}" />
                  <Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment"
                          Value="{Binding Path=VerticalContentAlignment, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType={x:Type ItemsControl}}}" />
              </Trigger>
          </Style.Triggers>
      </Style>
  </ListBox.Resources>
  <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="0,2,0,0">
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Number}" />
                <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Margin="7,0,0,0">
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding File}" />
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Dir}" Foreground="DarkGray" />
                </StackPanel>
            </StackPanel>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

This will produce at runtime the fallowing Line in the OutputWindow of VisualStudio:

System.Windows.Data Error: 4 : 
 Cannot find source for binding with reference 'RelativeSource FindAncestor, 
 AncestorType='System.Windows.Controls.ItemsControl', AncestorLevel='1''. 
 BindingExpression:Path=HorizontalContentAlignment; DataItem=null; 
 target element is 'ListBoxItem' (Name='');

Can someone give me a tip, how I can solve this?

Update:

I have added the Properties to the style to try to eliminate the warning/error.

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5 Answers

For me, the culprit was a TreeView, not a ListView. I added the global style to my App.xaml as suggested by @bsegraves:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type TreeViewItem}">
    <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Left" />
    <Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Top" />
</Style>

I also had to add the following to my TreeView:

<TreeView.ItemContainerStyle>
    <Style
        BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type TreeViewItem}}"
        TargetType="{x:Type TreeViewItem}">         
    </Style>
</TreeView.ItemContainerStyle>

For some reason, the BasedOn attribute was the missing piece. (I tried @Etienne's approach, but it didn't work.)

user_5702060

These HorizontalContentAlignment and VerticalContentAlignment issues are caused because the container is not defining its HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment respectively.

So instead of making generic style(s) for ListBoxItem, TreeViewItem or worse exhaustively setting those properties directly, I made a generic style for ItemsControl in my App.xaml that solved whatever is causing this issue like this:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type ItemsControl}">
        <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Left" />
        <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Top" />
</Style>
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