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WinForms GridView Overview

RadGridView is a grid component developed on top of Telerik Presentation Framework which provides a combination of performance, extensibility, and ease of use. Its flexible hierarchy model allows the use of different data providers and the creation of highly interactive interfaces for the display and management of large data without performance loss.

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Figure 1: RadGridView layout.

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Key Features

  • Easily customizable appearance and theming mechanis: RadGridView offers four flexible methods for customizing its appearance: Themes, the UI Editor (DesignTime), Events, and Conditional Formatting. Each method has its specific use case, although they may overlap, providing developers with multiple options to fine-tune the look and feel of the control. Themes allow for global styling changes, while the UI editor simplifies design-time adjustments. Events enable dynamic appearance changes during runtime, and Conditional Formatting applies specific styles based on cell values or conditions. Read more

  • Outstanding Performance: RadGridView delivers cell and row virtualization by utilizing container reuse and recycling, which further enhances grid performance and reduces memory footprint. Read more

  • Binding to a wide set of binding sources: RadGridView can be bound to various data source types as well can work in so-called Unbound mode, where the grid is not bound to any data and using the grid API. Read more

  • Flexible Hierarchy Model: RadGridView has an extremely flexible hierarchy model, which allows meaningful organization of complex data. Read more

  • Self-Referencing Hierarchy: Often tabular data defines a hierarchical relationship with itself. This approach is used to model tree-like structures that can be nested to arbitrary depths. RadGridView supports that scenario through its self-reference hierarchy feature that allows you to define a relation that points back to the same table. Read more

  • Filtering: The control has built-in filtering support out of the box. You can get this functionality by enabling it. Read more

  • Grouping: The users can interactively organize their data in a way that suits best their needs with a single drag-and-drop action. Data can be grouped according to several criteria effectively creating a tree of groups with the leaf nodes holding the actual data records. Read more

  • Sorting: RadGridView has built-in sorting support out of the box. You get this functionality enabled by default. Just click on the header of the column you wish to have your data sorted by and you are ready. Read more

  • Paging: The data layer of RadGridView supports pagination, allowing large datasets to be broken into manageable pages for improved performance and user experience. Developers can easily configure and customize the paging behavior to suit specific application needs. Read more

  • Searching: RadGridView control allows you to perform search operations on the displayed data. This built-in search functionality is available for both end users and developers. The search mechanism executes in a separate thread which leaves the UI responsive at all times. Read more

  • Printing: The control exposes printing support, which allows you to print the grid content. Read more

  • Summary rows and totals row with Aggregate Functions: RadGridView allows the use of summary rows to display key information about the dataset, such as the first item, last item, and total count. These summary rows can be pinned at the top or bottom and are available for use in both flat grid views as well as in grouped or hierarchical layouts. Read more

  • Pinned (Frozen) columns: RadGridView allows you to keep part of your data always visible putting the rest of it in context. Read more

  • Pinned rows: RadGridView provides a mechanism for pinning particular rows to the top of the control so that they do not participate in the vertical scrolling. A detailed explanation of this feature can be found in the Pinned Rows article.

  • Row and column reordering: RadGridView supports row reordering and it can be done by the user at runtime. The user just has to drag the desired row at the desired position between two other rows and drop it there. Read more

  • Merged Cells: As of Q3 2024 we have introduced support for merged cells in RadGridView control. As a result, the serial cells with equal values can be merged vertically or horizontally. Read more

  • Column grouping and HTML table-like layouts: You can customize the control visual appearance and behavior by using a view definition. You can customize the layout in three different view definitions: TableViewDefinition(default), ColumnGroupsViewDefinition, and HtmlViewDefinition. Read more

  • In-place data editing with validation and error indication: The control offers intuitive in-cell data editing, with a flexible API that allows developers to easily customize the built-in editors. It also supports seamless integration of data validation mechanisms, enabling developers to provide real-time error feedback for invalid inputs. Read more

  • Selection and navigation: The control supports single and multiple record selection that can be manipulated both with the mouse and with the keyboard. Read more

  • Exporting data in different file formats: RadGridView provides built-in methods for exporting its data to various formats. Read more

  • Localization and right-to-left support: The control exposes a localization mechanism to display control text and messages in a specific language. Read more. Apart from that, you can present the content of your grid instance in a right-to-left direction. Read more

  • Flexible API: RadGridView control provides a rich and flexible API, which will let the developers easily customize the layout or the behavior of the control. Furthermore, the API will be similar to the API of our existing controls, so it will be easier for those who have already used our products to use any other new component from our Telerik UI for WinForms suite.

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