grid controls for ASP.NET MVC? [closed]

Question

If you are using ASP.NET MVC how are you doing grid display? Rolled your own? Got a library from somewhere?

These are some of the known grid display solutions I have found for ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC Flexgrid - Has nice column layout method
• Code based ASP.NET MVC GridView - simple, small, clean
• MVC Contrib - grid from codePlex
• jQueryGrid - jQuery grid
• Datatables - jQuery plugin - believed to be section 508 compliant (.NET binding)
• extJS - cross browser RIA framework - has grid support
• Ingrid - jQuery data grid
• jqxGrid - jQuery data grid
• Telerik MVC - jQuery based grid that is GPL v2 licensed, commercial version also available
• MVC Controls Toolkit - Client Site Based Grid
• Infragistics igGrid - jQuery based MVC grid
• dhtmlxGrid - Ajax-enabled JavaScript grid control
• ASP.net MVC Awesome Ajax List - a different, very flexible approach, can be used as a grid
• Syncfusion MVC Grid - Commercial grid
• ASP.net MVC Awesome Grid - part of the Awesome library (jQuery based)
• Shield UI Grid for ASP.NET MVC
• Grid controls for ASP.NET MVC 5 projects

If you know of anything else that you are using or know to be good, please let me know.

Answer 1

If it's just for viewing data, I use simple foreach or even aspRepeater. For editing I build specialized views and actions. Didn't like webforms GridView inline edit capabilities anyway, this is kinda much clearer and better - one view for viewing and another for edit/new.

Answer 2

I just discovered Telerik has some great components, including Grid, and they are open source too. http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/

Answer 3

jqGrid is $299 if you use a special version that has server side integration, but it really is not that difficult to use the open source free version with ASP.NET MVC, once you get your jquery configuration straight it's almost as simple to use as any other licensed grid:

http://haacked.com/archive/2009/04/14/using-jquery-grid-with-asp.net-mvc.aspx

Answer 4

We have been using jqGrid on a project and have had some good luck with it. Lots of options for inline editing, etc. If that stuff isn't necessary, then we've just used a plain foreach loop like @Hrvoje.

Answer 5

I tried the example here of the Mvc Controls Toolkit grid. It appears a quite powerful and easy to use grid. The tutorial not only explain how to use the grid but also how to do paging, organize a view model and data annotations. It is worth to read it.

Answer 6

If it is read-only a good idea would be to create a table, then apply some really easy-but-powerful JQuery to that.

For simple alternative colour, try this simple JQuery.

If you need sorting, this JQuery plug-in simply rocks.