Read original post by Scott Lovegrove at Windows Phone 7 Nuggets Blog
If you’re moving a project from Windows Phone 7 to Windows Phone 8 and you use ListBoxes in your app, you can keep them in there with no real problems. However, it’s not recommended to keep using them, instead use the LongListSelector instead. If you’re familiar with the LongListSelector from the Windows Phone Toolkit, then you’ll find the new native LongListSelector a very different beast and you probably wouldn’t think to use it because you know what it was previously only really used for [...]