The Fastest WPF Grid Control

Essential Grid for WPF is a powerful 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. It does not make any assumptions on the structure of the data (many grid controls implemented as straight data-bound controls make such explicit assumptions). This leads to a very flexible design that can be easily adapted to a variety of tasks including both the display of completely unstructured data, as well as the display of structured data from a database. The display system also hosts a powerful and complete Styles architecture. Settings can be specified at the cell level or at higher levels using parent styles that are referred to as base styles. Base styles can affect groups of cells. Cell-level settings override any higher-level settings and enable easy customization right down to that level. With this initial version, Syncfusion's core focus has been on the underlying architecture for displaying cells with virtualized cell editors in a manner that enables good performance characteristics. The core display system also supports several building-block features such as nested grids, virtual modes, and support for virtually an unlimited number of rows and columns. Users of Essential Grid Windows Forms edition will be pleased to observe the same architectural underpinnings in the WPF Edition.

General Features

Essential Grid supports all standard grid control features. It also possesses unique features such as Virtual Mode, Frozen Rows and Columns and Drag-Drop.

• Easy APIs to add/delete/move row-columns
• Cell Span
• Clipboard Support
• Frozen Row and Column Footers
• Resize Rows and Columns
• Virtual Mode

Cell Style Architecture

Property settings for individual cells (and groups of cells) are stored in a style property. The style allows you to set properties such as background, cell value, and cell type for a particular cell. Essential Grid for WPF holds two different style caches that depend upon how the cell style is being used: a Volatile-style cache and a Render-style cache.

• Cell Style Architecture
• Covered Range

Cell Type

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.

• Combo Box
• Currency Edit
• Data Template
• Double Edit
• Integer Edit
• Mask Edit
• Percent Edit
• Rich Text Box
• Up-Down
• Date-Time
• Nested Grid
• Custom Drop-Down
• Static
• Header
• Text Box
• Check Box
• Button
• Text Block

Grid Data Control

The GridData control is a derived grid control that handles various types of data sources. The grid can be bound to any IEnumerable source and extends full support for IQueryable sources too. It generates LINQ expressions on all operations and thus easily handles any IQueryable source. It also has an option to automatically generate columns. It supports master-detail nested relations on any kind of collection as well as legacy data tables. The GridDatacontrol provides sorting, filtering, column-row resizing, and dragging funtionalities and lots of customization options to handle the grid in various scenarios.

• Data Binding
• AutoGenerate Columns
• Nested Relations
• Sorting and Filtering
• CollectionView Grouping
• Summaries
• Stacked Headers
• Property Settings Through XAML
• Handling High-Frequency Updates
• Unbound Columns

Grid Tree Control

The GridTreeControl is derived from GridControl and displays multi-column tree data. It is populated entirely by handling a single event where the root and child items are provided on demand. This on-demand population allows the control to quickly display selected tree nodes from a large data source without loading all data.

• Database in GTC
• Multicolumn Sorting
• Expand Cell Look
• File Explorer
• In-Depth Grid Tree Control
• Minimal Grid Tree Control