Best 3rd Party WPF Datagrid

Question

We need a datagrid for financial applications to replace existing winforms datagrids.

We tested a number of WPF grids over a year ago, but at the time they weren't up to standards of their winforms counterparts. What we found is that whilst their demos showed they had most of the features we'd need, after say a couple of weeks usage we would find a number of problems with various features or some basic tasks.

Features we would like: live cell updates, grouping, column filtering, add/remove rows, add/remove columns (or column choosing), cell editing, extensible summary bar, vertical & horizontal layout, virtualization, display other controls in cells, thorough set of row/cell events/properties, cell/row selection (built in copy/paste would be nice), auto column fit.

Does anyone have feedback on 3rd party WPF datagrids they have tried for a fair amount of time? Or even better has tried more than one lately.

Note: we already use WPF Toolkit datagrid in some apps, but need features which are standard on 3rd party grids - which we don't want to implement ourselves.

Answer 1

We've used Xceed's Windows forms datagrid for years with great success, and have now used their WPF implementation several times as we code most new windows in WPF. Xceed's library is the only external (paid) stuff in our large app. Microsoft has purportedly adopted their WPF grid in Outlook 2010. We highly recommend them.