The main home view for my WP7 app has 7 main menu items in a ListBox and scrolling is not needed when the phone is in Portrait orientation. However I noticed that although a scrollbar does not appear, the ListBox was still scrollable in Portrait mode anyway. At first I set the ListBox’s VerticalScrollBarVisiblity to Disabled but then quickly realized that cutoff the menu items in landscape orientation.

I decided to address this via a quick custom converter for now:
using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
namespace RiverBuddy.Converters
{
    // ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="{Binding Orientation, ElementName=uxPage, Mode=OneWay, Converter={StaticResource ScrollConverter}}">
    public class NoScrollIfPortraitConverter : IValueConverter
    {
        public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
        {
            //Debug.WriteLine("convert");
            var orient = (PageOrientation)value;
            var vis = (orient == PageOrientation.Portrait || orient == PageOrientation.PortraitDown || orient == PageOrientation.PortraitUp)
                ? ScrollBarVisibility.Disabled : ScrollBarVisibility.Auto;
            return vis;
        }
        public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
        {
            return null;
        }
    }
}
There was no need for me to convert back the other direction. The View then consumes the converter as follows:
<Views:PhoneApplicationPageBase
    x:Class="RiverBuddy.MainPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    d:DataContext="{d:DesignData SampleData/MainViewModelSampleData.xaml}"
    xmlns:i="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Interactivity;assembly=System.Windows.Interactivity"
    xmlns:cmd="clr-namespace:GalaSoft.MvvmLight.Command;assembly=GalaSoft.MvvmLight.Extras.WP7" 
    xmlns:Views="clr-namespace:RiverBuddy.Views" 
    xmlns:Converters="clr-namespace:RiverBuddy.Converters" FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
    FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
    Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
    SupportedOrientations="PortraitOrLandscape"  Orientation="Portrait" 
    mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768" 
    shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True" x:Name="uxPage">
    
    <Views:PhoneApplicationPageBase.Resources>
        <Converters:NoScrollIfPortraitConverter x:Key="ScrollConverter"/>
    </Views:PhoneApplicationPageBase.Resources>
    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">    
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>
        
        <Grid.Background>
            <ImageBrush ImageSource="/Images/HomeBackground.png"/>
        </Grid.Background>
        
        <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="24,24,0,12">
            <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="River Buddy" Foreground="White" Margin="-10,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>
            <TextBlock x:Name="ListTitle" Text="Home" Margin="-10,0" Foreground="White" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>
        </StackPanel>
        <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1">
            <ListBox x:Name="MainListBox" ItemsSource="{Binding Items}" SelectionChanged="MainListBox_SelectionChanged"
                     ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="{Binding Orientation, ElementName=uxPage, Mode=OneWay, Converter={StaticResource ScrollConverter}}">
                <i:Interaction.Triggers>
                    <i:EventTrigger EventName="SelectionChanged" >
                        <cmd:EventToCommand Command="{Binding MenuItemSelected}" PassEventArgsToCommand="True"/>
                    </i:EventTrigger>
                </i:Interaction.Triggers>
                <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
                    <DataTemplate>
                        <StackPanel x:Name="DataTemplateStackPanel" Orientation="Horizontal">
                            <Image x:Name="ItemImage" Source="{Binding Image}" Height="43" Width="43" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="10,0,20,0"/>
                            <StackPanel>
                                <TextBlock x:Name="ItemText" Text="{Binding LineOne}" Margin="-2,-13,0,0" 
                                          Foreground="White" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextExtraLargeStyle}"/>
                                <!-- removed PhoneTextAccent style now b/c of custom background-->
                                <TextBlock x:Name="DetailsText" Text="{Binding LineTwo}" Opacity="0.65" Margin="0,-6,0,13" 
                                           Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextAccentStyle}" Foreground="Yellow"/>
                            </StackPanel>
                        </StackPanel>
                    </DataTemplate>
                </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
            </ListBox>
        </Grid>
    </Grid>
 
</Views:PhoneApplicationPageBase>
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