Essential Grid for WPF is a cell-oriented grid control that offers excellent performance characteristics. At its core, the grid functions as a very efficient display engine for tabular data that can be customized down to the cell level.

The rich feature set of Essential Grid allows users to build feature-rich applications.

Various charts and gauges can be easily placed inside a grid cell.

Using Essential Grid Control in high performance applications is very much beneficial as it can display large amount of real time data, that tends to change periodically, without any performance hits.

The Grid Control supports a virtual cell architecture where cell contents are drawn statically until a live cell is needed. For example, when you mouse over the grid, the cells under the mouse pointer need to handle mouse inputs. Dynamically as needed, the static cells are turned into "live cells" that can handle the mouse interactions. These live cells stay in scope until they are no longer needed, which is usually when they are scrolled off screen. Using static drawing for cells, and thus minimizing the need for large numbers of live cells, provides an optimal way to display large data sources very quickly.

Essential Grid supports several cell types including Mask Edit, Up-Down, Double Edit, Integer Edit, Percent Edit, Date-Time Edit, Combo Box Drop-Down, and Drop-Down Lists. In addition, users can derive additional cell types from Syncfusion classes.

The GridDataControl control is a derived grid control that handles various types of data sources. The grid can be bound to any IEnumerable source and it extends full support to IQueryable sources as well. It generates LINQ expressions on all operations, and thus, easily handles any IQueryable source. It also supports binding to ADO.NET's data table and data views, Observable Collection, CollectionView source, Entity data model source and XAML Binding.