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Access Relevant Actions without Leaving the Grid

April 2, 2024
Context menus provide access to helpful commands for editing or copying specific information, all without needing to navigate elsewhere.

Context menus in grids are user-activated dropdown menus that appear when the users right-clicks a cell. They provide quick access to relevant actions for the selected data, like copying cells, editing rows, or performing custom operations specific to the grid's content. This functionality enhances user experience by offering contextual options without having to navigate away from the grid.

Several ASP.NET Core Grid controls offer context menus including:

  • DevExpress ASP.NET Core Data Grid (part of DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor) empowers you to design context menus with custom actions for your grid data.
  • Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core Grid (part of Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core) enables context-sensitive menus for data interaction, including editing and exporting.
  • Syncfusion ASP.NET Core DataGrid (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) facilitates customizable context menus with built-in options for editing, copying, and exporting grid content.
  • Wisej.NET DataGridView allows you to design interactive context menus for your entire application.

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

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Refine Data Exploration with Enhanced Grid Filtering

April 2, 2024
ZingGrid 1.7.0 empowers users to easily sift through data and find exactly what they are looking for, regardless of its complexity.

ZingGrid is a JavaScript library that simplifies the creation of interactive data tables and grids within web applications. Utilizing modern web components and focusing on performance and responsiveness, ZingGrid allows developers to implement features like searching, filtering, pagination, and in-line editing with minimal coding. This empowers efficient data visualization and manipulation for users, making it a valuable tool for web development.

Version 1.7.0 adds a rich set of filter conditions, including "contains," "notContains," "equal," "beginsWith," "endsWith," and many more, to pinpoint exactly the information you need. It also empowers you to create custom conditions, ensuring your filtering capabilities perfectly match your data and use case.

To see a full list of what's new in version 1.7.0, see our release notes.

ZingGrid is available as either a Single-Domain Website or Multi-Domain SaaS license. See our ZingGrid licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our ZingGrid product page.

Display High Volumes of Data in your Blazor Apps

March 25, 2024
Infragistics Ultimate 23.2 includes Ignite UI for Blazor's powerful data grid with virtualization on rows and columns.

Infragistics Ultimate offers a comprehensive library of enterprise-grade, high-performance grids, charts, and other UI controls, plus visual configuration tooling, rapid prototyping, and usability testing. It comes with controls for Angular, React, jQuery, Web Components, Blazor, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET Web Forms, Windows Forms, WPF and Xamarin.

Infragistics Ultimate 23.2 includes the updated Ignite UI for Blazor Data Grid and Blazor Table which are specifically crafted to effectively manage substantial datasets while maintaining essential interactive capabilities. They offer features such as virtualization for enhanced performance, row grouping and pinning, built-in columns with functionalities like filtering, moving, resizing, and sorting, as well as responsive layout support and collapsible group headers. These components are designed to cater to the practical needs of developers working with Blazor, providing them with reliable tools for efficiently handling large volumes of data within their applications.

Infragistics Ultimate 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 Ultimate licensing page for full details.

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

Allow Users to Personalize Your Grid's Appearance

March 21, 2024
Customizable themes empower users to personalize a grid's look and feel, leading to a more engaging and user-friendly experience.

Customizable themes allow users to easily modify the visual appearance of a grid. This typically encompasses aspects like background colors, font styles, cell borders, and hover effects. These themes offer numerous benefits including improving the grid's readability and user experience by aligning it with the application's overall design aesthetic, enhancing data visualization by using color-coding or conditional formatting, and supporting accessibility needs by incorporating high-contrast themes.

Several Vue.js grid controls offer customizable theme support, including:

  • DevExtreme HTML5 JavaScript Data Grid (part of DevExtreme Complete by DevExpress) empowers you to design grids with custom themes for a seamless user experience.
  • Kendo UI for Vue Grid (part of Kendo UI by Telerik) enables customization of grid themes, tailoring the look and feel to perfectly match your application.
  • DataViewsJS by MESCIUS facilitates the creation of visually appealing grids with custom themes, enhancing interactivity with your data.
  • ZingGrid allows you to craft unique grid presentations through customizable themes, ensuring a distinctive visual style.
  • SmartClient Grid by Isomorphic Software facilitates the development of feature-rich grids with customizable themes, providing a solution for complex data visualization.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Vue.js Grid controls.

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Optimize Cell Updates With Smart Re-rendering

March 13, 2024
Handsontable 14.2.0 now uses memoization to prevent unnecessary re-renders after user interactions like cell editing or scrolling.

Handsontable is a JavaScript library designed to help developers build interactive data grids into their web applications. Offering a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, it allows users to edit, sort, and filter data with ease. Highly customizable and compatible with popular frameworks like React and Angular, Handsontable empowers developers to build robust data manipulation features into their web applications.

Handsontable 14.2.0 improves cell re-rendering using the React wrapper. The wrapper now uses memoization to optimize performance during user interactions like cell editing or scrolling in the grid, allowing the wrapper to remember the previous state and only update the elements that have actually changed. This smarter approach results in a smoother and more stable experience in your Handsontable apps, especially for complex custom cell types.

To see a full list of what's new in version 14.2.0, see our release notes.

Handsontable is licensed per developer and is available as an Annual or Perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. See our Handsontable licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Handsontable product page.