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, 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

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

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

CRUD Operations

CRUD opertions can be easily performed with Essential 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 bar at run time.

• Filters with Filter Bar Support

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