Anybody have any experience with 3rd Party WinForm .NET grid controls?
Before I spend the afternoon downloading and trying out several of the grids and/or control packs, anybody have opinions on vendors? functionality? etc.
Some of the ones I'll be looking at are:
Any reviews online? Comparison charts?
This will undoubtedly get closed as subjective, but I'll go ahead and throw my full, unqualified support behind the DevExpress suite of controls, specifically the XtraGrid. I have never worked with another control that had as much speed, customizability, and both reliable and robust designer support.
I'm using Telerik in my current job, and while the version I have now is lightyears better than the version I started with, I still don't think it holds a candle to DevExpress's offering.
Component one's C1.FlexGrid is quite handy. If you're not looking to spend any money, the built in grid in 3.5 is quite useful.
I use Infragistics. It's very powerful, but can be difficult to set up for simple tasks. I haven't experienced any major problems or bugs. Their forums are pretty good for support, and they release updates quarterly (with serious bug fixes available more frequently).
Our experience with ComponentOne's C1 grid is just terrible. It blew up on our face when customers in the US government had FIPS policy in place and their customer support merely informs us - "yes, you are right, we are not FIPS compliant". Thank you very much and apart from that, the so-called virtual mode is just no good for large data.