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Enhance Grid Data Entry with Custom Edit Forms

April 23, 2025
Deliver flexible, data editing experiences directly within your .NET grid applications, improving usability and aligning inputs with business logic.

Customized Forms in .NET Grid components allow developers to tailor the structure and layout of data entry interfaces within grid-based controls, providing flexibility to match specific application requirements. These forms enable the addition of custom fields, validation logic, and user interface elements directly into the grid's editing workflow, enhancing the user experience and ensuring that data entry aligns with business rules. By offering control over how data is captured and displayed, customizable edit forms simplify complex data interactions, reduce the need for separate dialog windows, and support consistent, efficient data management within enterprise applications.

Many .NET Grid collections enable edit forms including:

  • DevExpress WPF Data Grid (part of DevExpress WPF) lets you design highly flexible edit forms directly within the grid, supporting complex layouts and validation logic.
  • FlexGrid for WinForms (part of ComponentOne Studio WinForms by MESCIUS) allows you to integrate customizable edit forms for efficient, user-friendly data entry.
  • Telerik UI for WinForms GridView (part of Telerik UI for WinForms) facilitates intuitive, adaptable edit form customization, enabling structured data input and validation.
  • NOV Grid for .NET (part of Nevron Open Vision for .NET) enables the creation of configurable edit forms inside the grid, supporting personalized data entry.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our .NET grid controls comparison.

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Simplify Grid Data Views with Expandable Rows

April 16, 2025
Syncfusion Essential Studio .NET MAUI 2025 Volume 1 adds a new master-detail view to the Grid, simplifying the presentation of complex datasets.

Syncfusion Essential Studio .NET MAUI (available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) empowers developers with a comprehensive suite of native UI controls, data visualization tools, and performance optimizations for building modern, cross-platform mobile and desktop applications. This professional-grade toolkit leverages the power of C# and XAML, enabling rapid development of stunning and responsive experiences across diverse platforms.

The Syncfusion Essential Studio .NET MAUI 2025 Volume 1 release introduces a new Master-detail view in the DataGrid component. This feature allows users to expand individual rows to reveal additional contextual information, such as transaction history, customer profiles, or nested datasets, without navigating away from the primary grid. It significantly improves data readability and interaction efficiency, reducing the need for multiple views or pop-ups. For developers, it simplifies implementation of complex data relationships and contributes to a more seamless, user-friendly application design.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025 Volume 1, see our release notes.

Syncfusion Essential Studio .NET MAUI is available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise which is licensed per developer starting with a Team License of up to five developers. It is available as a 12 Month Timed Subscription License which includes support and maintenance. See our Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our Syncfusion Essential Studio .NET MAUI product page.

Enhance Data Sorting with Customizable Behavior

April 15, 2025
Wijmo adds tri-state column sorting to FlexGrid, allowing users to easily cycle through ascending, descending, and unsorted views.

Wijmo by MESCIUS is a comprehensive JavaScript library offering a suite of high-performance UI components and data grids specifically designed to streamline the development of modern enterprise applications. It emphasizes reduced development time and improved maintainability, along with a focus on performance through its efficient design and small module size. Wijmo integrates seamlessly with popular JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue.js, and supports cutting-edge technologies like TypeScript, making it a versatile solution for building complex web applications.

Wijmo introduces enhanced grid sorting functionality within the FlexGrid control, providing developers with the capability to implement tri-state column sorting. This allows users to cycle through ascending, descending, and unsorted states with successive clicks on column headers, offering more granular control over data arrangement. This refined sorting mechanism improves the user experience in data-intensive applications by enabling more flexible and intuitive data exploration, ultimately leading to more efficient data analysis and manipulation within the grid interface.

Wijmo is licensed per developer. Developer Licenses are perpetual and include 1 year Subscription which provides upgrades, including bug fixes and new features. See our Wijmo licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our Wijmo product page.

Handle Large Datasets with a Fast, Virtualized Grid

April 11, 2025
Highcharts Grid delivers smooth, high-performance rendering of massive data volumes through intelligent row virtualization.

Highcharts Grid is a feature-rich data grid component developed by Highsoft, designed for use within Highcharts Dashboards or as a standalone component. Grid Lite is a free, lightweight version ideal for developers seeking a performant and accessible data grid with a basic feature set. Grid Pro is a commercial, feature-rich version built for complex applications that demand advanced data manipulation and interactivity. It includes all the capabilities of Grid Lite, along with a highly customizable and interactive interface that supports inline editing, column sorting, and event handling, enabling developers to build responsive data visualization applications.

Highcharts Grid delivers high performance when handling large datasets by employing row virtualization, a technique that renders only the rows currently visible within the viewport. This significantly reduces memory consumption and ensures fluid, responsive scrolling, even when working with thousands of records.

Highcharts Grid Pro requires a license for Highcharts Dashboards, licensed per developer as an Annual or Perpetual License with Internal, Saas, SaaS+ and OEM distribution options. The annual license includes support and all product updates for 1 year and must be renewed to continue to use the software. The perpetual license includes an "Advantage Subscription" for 1 to 5 years which provides support and updates for that period. If you do not renew Advantage then you may continue to use the software at the last release available during the active Advantage period. See our Highcharts Dashboards licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our Highcharts Dashboards product page.

Handle Large Datasets with Advanced Data Grid

April 9, 2025
Infragistics Professional includes a high-performance Angular Data Grid designed for scalable, real-time interaction with huge datasets.

Infragistics Professional is a comprehensive toolkit for software developers, offering a wide range of pre-built, high-performance UI components for building visually appealing and feature-rich applications across Angular, React, Web Components, Blazor, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, Windows Forms, WPF and Xamarin. It includes controls such as data grids, charts, navigation menus, and more, along with productivity tools to streamline development processes.

Infragistics Professional delivers a powerful Angular Data Grid Component that enables developers to efficiently display, manage, and interact with large datasets in modern web applications. Designed for performance and scalability, it offers advanced features such as editing, sorting, filtering, and data export, all seamlessly integrated into the Angular framework. This allows developers to build responsive, real-time data experiences that meet the demands of enterprise-grade applications.

Infragistics Professional is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 1, 2 or 3 year support and maintenance subscription. See our Infragistics Professional licensing page for full details.

The Ignite UI for Angular Data Grid is available in the following products: