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Add Flexible Side Panels to Your Grids

June 11, 2025
jQWidgets v23.0.0 adds a new side panel in jqxGrid, enabling you to display supplementary data or controls alongside your grid.

jQWidgets is a comprehensive JavaScript UI framework offering a robust collection of over 60 widgets, themes, and utilities for building professional-grade, cross-platform web applications. Built on jQuery, HTML5, and CSS, it provides extensive functionality including data grids, charts, navigation, input validation, and more. jQWidgets simplifies web development, ensuring your applications work seamlessly across desktop browsers, tablets, and smartphones.

The jQWidgets v23.0.0 release adds a new side panel feature in jqxGrid, allowing developers to add custom HTML elements directly into side panels positioned next to the grid. Whether you want to include filters, charts, summaries, help text, or interactive widgets, the side panel supports any type of content.

To see a full list of what's new in v23.0.0, see our release notes.

jQWidgets is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license 1 year support and maintenance. See our jQWidgets licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our jQWidgets product page.

Refine Grid Data with Smarter Filtering

June 4, 2025
ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2025 v1 adds a modernized column filter UI to FlexGrid, supporting more advanced and precise filtering.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is a comprehensive suite of .NET UI controls developed by MESCIUS (formerly GrapeCity) designed for building rich, interactive desktop, web, and mobile applications. It provides developers with a broad range of tools and components—including data grids, charts, reports, input controls, and advanced data visualization features—for platforms such as WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, WinUI, and .NET MAUI. The suite emphasizes performance, flexibility, and ease of integration, helping teams create consistent, feature-rich user experiences across multiple application types while maintaining a unified development approach.

The ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2025 v1 update introduces a redesigned column filter UI for FlexGrid in WinForms that enhances filtering precision and developer control. It supports a wider range of filter conditions, such as numeric and date ranges, duplicates, and null values, allowing for more refined data manipulation. The new interface aligns visually with modern application themes and remains backward compatible, ensuring that existing codebases can adopt the update without disruption. This improvement enables developers to implement more robust and flexible data grids in their WinForms applications.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025 v1, see our release notes.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is licensed per developer on a perpetual basis and includes a 12 month subscription. Priority Support is also available. See our ComponentOne Studio Enterprise licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our ComponentOne Studio Enterprise product page.

Customize Data Entry and Display

June 2, 2025
Studio Controls for COM/COM 64 v7.5 adds a new ctxGrid control for high-speed data presentation and advanced input handling.

Studio Controls for COM and Studio Controls COM 64 by DBI Technologies are a set of 32-bit and 64-bit ActiveX components for building data-driven Windows applications. Both suites include controls for grids, scheduling, calendars, and UI elements, designed to integrate with environments like Microsoft Access and Visual Basic. The suite supports Windows styling and XML configuration, helping developers create professional, interactive applications across legacy and modern platforms.

The Studio Controls for COM v7.5 update introduces ctxGrid, a high performance 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX data grid that integrates seamlessly into any ActiveX supported IDE and provides developers with formatted input controls including combo boxes and validation rules for robust data entry. It supports dynamic column manipulation such as locking, sorting and auto sizing and leverages XML driven styling and theming to ensure a consistent Windows compliant user interface while exposing a fully extensible API for implementing custom behaviors. Its lightweight architecture delivers a minimal memory footprint and rapid rendering of large datasets, enabling developers to add interactive data presentation and input functionality quickly without compromising overall application responsiveness.

To see a full list of what's new, see our Studio Controls for COM release notes and Studio Controls COM 64 release notes.

Studio Controls for COM/COM 64 is licensed per developer, royalty-free for runtime use. A one-year subscription includes support, updates, upgrades and any new controls. See our Studio Controls for COM licensing page and Studio Controls COM 64 licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our Studio Controls for COM product page and Studio Controls COM 64 product page.

Deliver Instant Insights with Aggregated Data

May 27, 2025
Aggregation features in React grid components allow users to quickly view key metrics, such as sums and averages, directly within the grid interface.

Aggregation in grid components allows users to automatically compute and display summary values, such as totals, averages, minimums, and maximums, across rows or columns of data. This feature enhances the analytical capability of a data grid by offering quick insights directly within the interface, reducing the need to export data for external processing. It is particularly valuable in business intelligence dashboards, financial applications, and administrative tools where on-the-fly data synthesis is essential.

Several React grid controls offer aggregation including:

  • Handsontable provides built-in support for column summaries, enabling functions like sum, min, max, and average to be easily configured per column.
  • SmartClient Grid by Isomorphic Software provides advanced summary capabilities via its GridSummaryRow feature, which supports configurable summary functions at both column and group levels.
  • Jspreadsheet Pro Data Grid includes a "footers" feature that allows for dynamic aggregation calculations using built-in or custom-defined functions, directly visible beneath the dataset.
  • ZingGrid supports data aggregation through its summary cell attributes, making it easy to apply functions such as sum, count, and average without additional scripting.

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

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Set Columns as Mandatory in Data Grid Apps

May 16, 2025
Use grid controls in JavaScript to define mandatory columns, ensuring that essential fields are filled out to maintain complete and valid input.

A fundamental feature in a data grid is the ability to specify that a column must be populated with values and cannot be left empty. By designating certain columns as mandatory, developers can enforce input rules that prevent users from leaving critical fields blank, such as user identifiers, product names, or timestamps. Required columns are typically enforced through validation rules that prevent the submission or processing of incomplete records, thereby ensuring the completeness and validity of data entries. This improves data integrity, reduces the likelihood of processing errors, and supports consistent business logic across applications that rely on structured datasets.

Several JavaScript grid controls allow you to set columns as required, including:

  • Wijmo FlexGrid (part of Wijmo by MESCIUS) is a JavaScript data grid that allows columns to be marked as required, including built-in validation logic to ensure compliance.
  • Jspreadsheet Pro Data Grid (part of Jspreadsheet Pro) supports the use of validation rules to ensure entries meet predefined criteria, enabling you to define mandatory fields.
  • SmartClient Grid (part of SmartClient by Isomorphic Software) equips JavaScript apps with required column configuration to prevent the submission of incomplete records.
  • Ignite UI Angular Grid (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) offers developers an out of the box validator to enforce the population of required columns during data entry.

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

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