Syncfusion Essential Grid adds JSON mode

2011 Vol 1 release JSON mode supports filtering, editing, grouping, column formatting, custom formatting and summaries.

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Card View and Filtering Performance demos in Syncfusion Essential Grid.

Syncfusion Essential Grid offers Microsoft Excel-like grid functionality and high-performance grouping support for both flat and hierarchical data sources. Syncfusion Essential Grid allows extremely detailed customization down to the cell level. Multilevel undo/redo, shared scrollbar support, data/view separation, floating cells, multiple cell types, and extensibility are features that are included. Syncfusion Essential Grid includes Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC controls.

Syncfusion Essential Grid is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

ASP.NET

• A row-double-click event handler has been added on the client and server side.
• GridGroupingControl's Excel-like edit now works correctly in the Chrome browser for .NET Framework 4.0.
• The SourceListRecordChanging event will be canceled when setting e.cancel to True.
• Styles can now be set to ButtonBar using the Style tag.
• Changing PageSize now works for custom paging.
• Caption-text customization now works for custom paging.
• ViewState is now enabled for EditItemTemplate's child controls.
• The sort indicator will be displayed correctly when a column's name and mapping name are different.
• In a grid's child table, an empty cell will not be added to the caption row when the row header displays.
• The UseAutoformat property now works correctly when exporting to Excel.
• Cell navigation through the Tab key has been implemented for ExcelLikeEdit mode.
• The ability to save an exported Excel file to a server has been implemented.
• A script error is no longer raised when width is set for an unbound grid.
• Rows are now expanded initially when an object's data source is bound to a grid.
• Response during custom filtering has been improved.
• Grid cell borders now display correctly in Internet Explorer 7 when the item template contains null data.
• The ClientSideOnRecordClick event now fires with an event argument in Firefox.
• A numeric text box containing a value greater than 999 now updates correctly in ExcelLikeEdit.

ASP.NET MVC

• MVC3 support has been added.
• Support for JSON mode has been added for filtering, editing, grouping, column formatting, custom formatting, and summaries.
• Support for frozen rows and columns has been added.
• In GridBuilder, width and height properties have been included.
• Filtering now works when rendering a grid inside a form.
• Filtering now works for a complex bound column.
• The sorting extension no longer causes performance issues.
• Grouping can now be disabled for a specific column, and unbound column grouping now works.
• The Click action no longer fails in the upper part of grid toolbar items.

Windows Forms

• Support for Office 2010 themes has been added.
• Visual Studio 2010 Coded UI support for GridControl has been added.
• Resizing support through standard cell boundaries for GridControl has been implemented.
• Support has been added for exporting content from a GridDataBoundGrid to a Word document.

WPF

• Data Template cell renderer revamping.
• Implementing support for Minimum and Maximum value for Integer Edit cell.
• Implementing support for customize the row and column re size pointer.
• Column chooser feature has been implemented.
• Context menu feature has been implemented.

Silverlight

• Issues with data-template usage have been fixed.
• The rendering mechanism has been changed to WriteableBitmap.

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering business innovation - the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Syncfusion's award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to grow with you, whether you're using Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight.