Accessing the ScrollViewer of a ListBox from C#

you can try this little helper function

usage

var scrollViewer = GetDescendantByType(yourListBox, typeof(ScrollViewer)) as ScrollViewer;

helper function

public static Visual GetDescendantByType(Visual element, Type type)
{
  if (element == null) {
    return null;
  }
  if (element.GetType() == type) {
    return element;
  }
  Visual foundElement = null;
  if (element is FrameworkElement) {
    (element as FrameworkElement).ApplyTemplate();
  }
  for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(element); i++) {
    Visual visual = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(element, i) as Visual;
    foundElement = GetDescendantByType(visual, type);
    if (foundElement != null) {
      break;
    }
  }
  return foundElement;
}

Hope this helps

If you will use standard ListBox, so you can change yours getter to this one:

public class MyListBox : ListBox
{
    public ScrollViewer ScrollViewer
    {
        get 
        {
            Border border = (Border)VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(this, 0);

            return (ScrollViewer)VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(border, 0);
        }
    }
}

I've modified the great answer of @punker76 to create an extension method for Visual and provide explicit return type:

   public static class Extensions
   {
      public static T GetDescendantByType<T>(this Visual element) where T:class
      {
         if (element == null)
         {
            return default(T);
         }
         if (element.GetType() == typeof(T))
         {
            return element as T;
         }
         T foundElement = null;
         if (element is FrameworkElement)
         {
            (element as FrameworkElement).ApplyTemplate();
         }
         for (var i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(element); i++)
         {
            var visual = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(element, i) as Visual;
            foundElement = visual.GetDescendantByType<T>();
            if (foundElement != null)
            {
               break;
            }
         }
         return foundElement;
      }

   }

You can now call it by SomeVisual.GetDescendantByType and it returns either already a correct typed ScrollViewer or null (which is default(T))