Accessing Data
Defining Layouts
Designing Look and Feel
Design-Time Experience
Editing Data
Navigating and Selecting
Optimizing Performance
Searching and Filtering
Sorting and Grouping
   
Built-in AJAX Functionality

Read and update data without a postback using the built-in AJAX capabilities of the ASP.NET AJAX data grid.  When you need a lightweight, expediant presentation of your flat tabular data, this is the grid control that gets the job done.

Data Binding

You can bind any enumerable data source providing an enumerator to the ASP.NET AJAX data grid control, plus any standard ASP.NET data source controls.

  • The DataSource property lets you set a reference to your enumerable data source.
  • The DataSourceID property tells the data grid how to locate your data source control dynamically at run-time.
  • The DataBind method binds the data grid to your flat, enumerable data source.
Pager Template

A templatable user interface element can be customized on the data grid that allows changing the currently displayed page, moving one page forward or back, or jumping to the beginning or end.

Paging

Divide up records in your large data sets so that end users page through them, one page at a time. This lets you avoid scrolling the user interface when there are many more records than can fit on one screen, and presents users with an easily digestible amount of information.