Create stunning AJAX-enabled grid interfaces

Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC is a light-weight, AJAX-enabled, high-performance grid component built especially to suit the programming model of the ASP.NET MVC framework. It has a rich feature set that includes grouping, sorting, paging, data-binding, editing, filtering and several built-in styles.

Essential Grid is designed for performance and can easily handle millions of records. AJAX is extensively used to reduce traffic--only the required data is sent between the client and server, minimizing data transfer and response time.

Grouping

Essential Grid has the built-in capability to group data by one or more columns. Grouping is performed on the server; only the required data is sent back to the client using AJAX, so the operation is greatly optimized for speed and data transfer.

• Group by Column

Appearance

Essential Grid has several built-in skins that make styling extremely easy. It is also possible to format data displayed inside the grid.

• Built-in Skins
• Formatting Data
• Customization Actions
• Conditional Formatting

Client-Side Interactivity

Essential Grid has several client-side interactions that are enabled to enhance the end-user experience.

• Selection
• Column Resizing
• Drag-and-Drop
• Toggle Selection

Summaries

Essential Grid provides options for including summary rows for an entire grid. Grid summaries will be displayed within these summary rows.

• Summary Rows

Unbound Column Support

An unbound column is not bound to any data. This helps when adding a custom column to a grid.

• Unbound Column Support

Sorting

Essential Grid has built-in support for sorting by one or more columns. It is also possible to sort using custom logic.

• Sorting Columns
• Multicolumn Sorting
• JSON-Mode Sorting

Paging

Essential Grid includes a pager bar that can be used to easily navigate to a required page when a grid has data spanning several pages.

• Pager Bar
• JSON-Mode Paging

Grid Editing

Essential Grid has built-in feature for CRUD operations, that can be used to perform add,edit and delete records in grid.

• CRUD Operations

Filtering

Filters in the grid enable users to select and display a subset of records based on user-defined criteria. The criteria can be set using a filter menu at the column header.

• Filter Menu

Scrolling

The scrolling feature allows a grid to be manually scrolled. When the entire grid needs to be seen, enable scrolling so that the entire grid can be viewed with no boundries.

• Scroll Support

Binding Complex Objects

Essential Grid supports binding complex data objects. With this feature, complex property values can be bound to a grid.

• Complex Objects Support

Data Binding

Binding data to the grid has been simplified to a single line of code. The grid also supports any kind of IEnumerable data source.

• Data Source Options
• Custom Binding

Exporting

Essential Grid provides export options that let you save content in Excel format. Users can download data from the grid control into an Excel spreadsheet for offline verification or computation.

• Exporting to Excel

Drag and Drop

Essential Grid support many new user-interactive features that to drag any records in grid to any other element and to drag any element and drop into our grid

• Dragging Rows
• Dragging Elements onto Grid Rows