ASP.NET Data Grid Control

The ASP.NET Data Grid quickly displays tabular information for your users.

The newly enhanced Data Grid excels at rapidly displaying and editing flat, tabular information. Designed with the deeply-integrated ASP.NET AJAX capabilities of the Aikido™ Framework, it's both featherweight and feature-rich. Bath updating, cell merging, multi-column headers, WordExporter and clipboard support are just a few of its features. The ASP.NET grid's modular composition makes it easy to configure by the behaviors you add to it within Visual Studio®.

In performance tests the WebDataGrid outperforms all other ASP.NET AJAX data grids binding against the same data, in the same way with comparable features turned on. Read our performance whitepaper to see our test results. Better yet, try it for yourself.


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Key Features at a Glance

  • WordExporter – With just one line of code, the contents of the WebDataGrid can be exported to Microsoft Word.
  • Multi-Column Header – Create column groups in your WebDataGrids to customize the layout of the information that is being displayed.
  • Batch Updating – Retain user updates within the grid’s temporary storage on the client-side until the user is ready to commit it to the data store.
  • Clipboard Support – Cut, copy and paste data rows and data cells from within your grid to Microsoft Excel sheet, or vice versa.
  • Cell Merging – When a user sorts, cells with like values merge together to form a single cell area, giving a visual grouping across rows.
  • No-Touch AJAX – An ASP.NET AJAX grid control that takes full advantage of ASP.NET 3.5 (or Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0) to display data while deferring costly postbacks.
  • Pay-to-Play Model - Lightweight because it renders the minimal HTML needed for the Composite of behaviors you've added to the ASP.NET grid.
  • Interactive – With its variety of behaviors, end users can sort, summarize, filter, page and edit data records interactively, move and resize columns, and much more that adds value over and above static HTML tables.
  • Databound – Use any enumerable data source or standard ASP.NET data source control to fill the WebDataGrid with information.
  • Stylable – Built-in Application Styling Framework™ and industry-standard CSS support let you apply a professional appearance to the data grid with ease (numerous pre-designed style sets included).

Additional Resources

Visit the screencasts library and browse through the collection of WebDataGrid video tutorials. Looking for live examples? Head over to the ASP.NET online samples at http://samples.infragistics.com.