APNSoft Controls [4.5.2.20]
DataGrid > Features

Standards-Based Software

• DataGrid output is XHTML 1.1 compliant.
• Ready for ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 & 4.5. Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010 & 2012.
• Based on industry standards: XML and CSS.

Easy-to-Use Software

• Simplicity. No complex API.
• Uses the default style and data to see the result immediately.
• Compact Documentation.
• C# and VB.NET examples included.

Cross-Browser Support

• APNSoft DataGrid offers full up-level cross-browser support for IE 5.5+, Firefox 0.8+, Google Chrome 6.0+, Mozilla 1.4+, Netscape 7.0+, Opera 7.5+, and Safari 1.2+.

"Smart" component

• Loads data on demand using AJAX.
• High Processing Speed. Operates perfectly with tables, containing tens of thousands entries.
• Automatically displays scrollbars.
• Saves its state after PostBack.
• Scrolls the list up to the selected entry.
• Automatic column sizing (Best Fit).
• Checks the state of data source and displays relevant data.
• Client-side caching. Automatically checks loaded data in order to avoid extra requests.
• Support for SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
• Health Checking. Generates client-side messages which allow developers control the component status.

Highly Customizable Look

• Colors, sizes, borders and fonts can all be customized to visually integrate with any project.
• Support for Skins. Collection of free, ready-to-use DataGrid skins.
• The visual appearance is specified with CSS.
• Support for background images.
• Alternating rows support.
• CSS customization for rows and columns.
• Support for transparency and shadows.

Rich featured

• Resizable and Sortable columns.
• Export to Excel, HTML and custom format (PDF, Images, etc.).
• Context Menu for rows and headers.
• Support for fixed (frozen) columns.
• Support for fixed (summary) row.
• Row Filter support.
• Data formatting.
• Support for columns with Line Numbers.
• Support for hovered rows.
• Column Ordering.
• CheckBoxes, DropDowns, Images, Links, etc.
• Flexible templates. Allows combining data from different fields, processing conditional formatting and creating calculated columns. Automatically identifies the type of applicable template (ASCX, XSL or HTML). Support for external parameters.
• Support for custom editor. The form for editing entries can be configured independently.
• Support for cell editing with tabbing through editable cells.
• Click/Double-click row events.
• Built-in paging support.
• Customizable Toolbar. Support for custom buttons.
• Absolute or static positioning.

Flexible Programming Options

• Data binding support. DataGrid includes the DataSource property and the DataBind() method and supports different data sources: DataView, DataTable, DataSet, DataReader and any object that implements IEnumerable interface.
• DataGrid items can be defined programmatically.
• Internal AJAX engine. Support for user-defined asynchronous (AJAX) calls to the server.
• Support for different running modes: CallBack and PostBack.
• ASP.NET AJAX compatibility.
• Additional support for row uniqueness.
• Support for client-side and server-side events and methods.
• ViewState maintenance.
• Represents an obvious, easily understandable model - a set of columns and rows.

Other Features

• Multiple component instances on a single page are allowed.
• Support for Unicode characters. Universal Multilanguage support allows formatting and displaying data in several languages simultaneously.
• Generated code is dramatically small.