Suggestions for a 3rd party .net datagrid control - ideally free?

Question

I've been looking for a databound control to show some data to the user, who needs to be able to filter and group the output. I've looked at the documentation for the standard DataGridView control, but it doesn't seem to have the drag-and-drop grouping/filtering that I've seen in many apps.

For an example, if anyone uses Toad to do SQL queries, that app has the kind of control I need. It allows the user to categorise, sort and filter whatever was returned by the user-typed SQL query.

Does anyone know of such a control? I'd naturally prefer it to not cost any money.

Answer 1

Infragistics' WinGrid can do just that.

Answer 2

I've used the Infragistics stuff, which does all you are looking for. It's not free though I'm afraid. There are lots of other commercial ones at varying costs (See this question).

There are several open source ones around, XDataGrid, SourceGrid, and more if you google, but I can't comment on their suitability, you'll have to evaluate them yourself. (Post back here with information if you do review them)

Answer 3

I can attest to SourceGrid being a fairly reliable 3rd party datagrid control. If you need grouping, the only control I can think of is ObjectListView.