Hi, can any of you recommend a good ajax gridview for asp.net? I have looked at telriks, but 1000$ is a bit too expansive for my taste. I don't need a whole lot of features, but rather it to be fast.
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You can use Ajax.Asp.Net to wrap the standard gridview for full ajax functionality.
ck
2009-04-30 16:05:58
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You can use a regular gridview control with an update panel. I used that combination in a majority of my applications with out any perfromance issues. Are you expecting to be querying a lot of data on a high traffic site?
Michael Kniskern
2009-04-30 16:06:02
Hopefully it will be a high traffic site. The reason I havn't done it with an update panel, is it from my experience is a bit slow?
Dofs
2009-04-30 16:16:11
Have you looked into using a repeater control within an update panel? There is very little overhead with a repeater and you can transfer your paging functionality to your db layer. What are you using for your data store?
Michael Kniskern
2009-04-30 16:28:56
I thought of using an asp repeater, but thought it would be faster to code, just to use the gridview.
Dofs
2009-04-30 16:34:06
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You should just wrap your GridView in an update panel. Unless you are looking with something with a lot more features (including grouping, etc.). I've tried the Infragistics GridView and our company right now is using the ComponentArt toolsets, but I am not a big fan of either (especially not for the prices, and the ComponentArt stuff is way too complicated to configure for something simple in my honest opinion).
TheTXI
2009-04-30 16:08:52
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You could just use a completely client-side solution like YUI DataGrid or jqGrid for jQuery, then set it up to get your data via JSON from a WCF service or similar. This is a little more work than using a regular GridView in an UpdatePanel, but way-way more efficient.
NathanD
2009-04-30 16:17:14
I totally agree with you on this one. The UpdatePanel actually posts the entire page's viewstate back to the server! I hate that.
Dan Appleyard
2009-04-30 16:50:18
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you can also try Anthem. here is a a datagrid example too. I used it about 2-3 years ago and it worked really nice until i completely switched over to jQuery based AJAX stuff
In terms of performance, i found it slightly better than putting a data grid in an Update Panel though it also sends your complete viewstate back & forth.
Vikram
2009-04-30 16:48:36
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Try using CoolGridView control (extends ASP.NET 2.0 GridView) and UpdatePanel from AJAXControlToolkit. http://johnsobrepena.blogspot.com/2010/02/coolgridview-february-2010-release.html
You can download the example from the latest release of CoolControls at codeplex.
John
2010-02-02 02:56:16