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What WPF control to use for a series of images (like Netflix, Hulu, etc..)?

New to .Net and Visual Studio. Quickly learning. As my first application, I am building a program similar to Netflix and Hulu (without the streaming part). Coming from a web background, I'd use tables and divs to accomplish what I am trying to do.
What component would I use to create a series of thumbnails (as you would find on Netflix) of the movie / TV show. Provided an image below as an example.
It would continue on with horizontal scroll. I understand this would be non trivial and I'm not expecting a direct answer. However, I am resourceful person and only would need to be pointed in the right direction.
Thank you.

You should use an ItemsControl variant which could be ListView with ScrollViewer.
Or, a WrapPanel with ScrollViewer.
Or, a UniformGrid.
Apply scrolling support using Animation.

How do I Draw a Chessboard using XAML?

I am working on a project that requires me to develop an application using the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). I have no prior knowledge of developing UWP apps and XAML is completely new to me. Thankfully however, I am competent at writing in C#.
The project I am working on involves recreating the Tafl Board games - Hnefatafl, Brandubh, Tablut, etc.
Now, while I'm fairly confident in my ability to create the underlying logic for the game, I find myself bamboozled when it comes to creating the interface using XAML.
Several different chessboards will need to be rendered: 7x7, 9x9 and 11x11.
So my question is two-fold.
How do I create a chessboard in XAML that will scale appropriately to different window/display sizes and be able to be backed by a grid behind the scenes (i.e. The application can detect which square of the board is touched, etc)
How do I go about rendering a different board depending on the game type selected?
Apologies if this is a terrible question but googling hasn't helped me a whole lot and StackOverflow has always been a great source of information.

You might want to try out the RelativePanel control and use different coloured rectangles for the tiles. This would resize for different screen sizes.

I hope you finally got an answer to this that led you in the right direction. If you didn't here are some ideas that might narrow your research terms and get your going. I'd give you working samples but youd did mention it is for a school project :).
Using a listbox and manupulating the base style can be a relatively
good way to go, and very reusable. This also fulfills your
requirement of knowing the tile currently selected as the listbox
already handles that. I used this technique for a Sudoku board that
had alternating colors for the different regions.
Create a UserControl with properties for the number of columns and
rows you need for your board and then dynamically add the rows and
columns to the grid. If your game model has a list of tiles and
each tile has a column and row property that can be mapped to the
column and row indices of the grid, you could potentially bind to it
quite easily.
Create a custom control that handles the columns,
rows and other aspects of the board itself in c# and the rendering
in XAML. I personally shy away from this just because the existing
controls are already so flexible that with enough ingenuity you can
create what you need with out of the box controls.

Render Tube and resize, dynamically add text

What I am looking to do in my Windows Forms application (or even WPF). Is to dynamically render an image of a tube, or cylinder (with a 3d look or having some sort of depth for a better visual experience), setting the length and hieght and so on, (also need rulers and such to zoom in and out). But then allow the user to enter some text, which will then be placed on that tube or cylinder, for display purposes, able to scale the text size, to create a visual representation of what it would look like IRL.
Any ideas on where I can start, or some examples I can build off of? This vector type display is new to me, so any help would be appreciated.

This article looked interesting. I would imagine you could tweak it to do what you were after.
http://kindohm.com/technical/WPF3DTutorial.htm
Also I googled "WPF 3D drawing".
If you have the choice WPF is better suited for graphics than WinForms out of the box. Though a good programmer can make WinForms do similar.

Creating an image containing text with drop shadow using WPF, but inside a ASP.NET web app

Ok, I have a rather strange request.
Due to the inconsistency in how different browsers support text with drop shadow, I was thinking that the text I need with drop shadow (some headers), I could create dynamically on the server side of my web app, and then pass the image to the browser instead of text directly.
I want to use WPF for this, since WPF has a lot of text manipulation built in, and it should be significantly easier to make text with drop shadow in WPF compared to GDI+.
So what I need to do is inside my Web App, create a WPF text element with the drop shadow effect, and save it inside an image (either to disk, or better yes pass it directly to the browser since I actually do not need to store the image since it will be specific for that request only).
I'm hoping for at least some pointers in the right direction :)

I just want to say, since this is unanswered and I don't use WPF that much, GDI+ would actually be pretty easy:
Draw text on image using the desired color of the shadow.
Do a box blur (or Gaussian).
(optional) Create another bitmap and do basically a watermark style draw (this would allow you to set opacity and thus soften the shadow, etc.)
Draw text again using color desired for the text
With that you would have yourself text with a drop shadow. There's about 10 different image processing libraries that make it rather simple (I will sadly do some self promotion and just say that Craig's Utility Library has a draw text function and box blur function in the Utilities.Media.Image.Image class, but there's tons of other packages you could use).

C#: How to add images in listview?

Such a decent question,how do I add images(I googled,but they say I have to add approximately 50 lines of code to do that,why?)?

A big problem with WinForms is that it is just a small abstraction over the native windows UI controls. As long as WinForms supports the required functionality, such as the icons on ListView as Tim mentioned, it is relatively easy to accomplish the task but as soon as WinForms does not support the functionality you want, you need to implement it almost from scratch. Luckily List controls in WinForms provide a relatively easy way to draw your own content using the owner drawing functionality.
Easier way is to have a look at WPF which is much more versatile framework when it comes to requiring more specialized functionality. Though this requires .Net framework 3.0 or greater and has a bit steeper learning curve.

It depends where on the item you want the image to appear.
To set an icon to the left of each item, first set the control's LargeImageList and/or SmallImageList properties, then set the item's ImageIndex property.
To display an image anywhere else on an item, you'll need to use the list view control's owner drawing functionality. There's an example in MSDN, although this may be the same 50 lines of code you've already found.