Guys,

Although this thread isn't directly related to LLBLGen I'd be interested to know which grid controls people use and prefer when using LLBLGen.

We have used the Janus grid control for the first version of our product using .NET 1.1 and would consider alternative grids or even the core .NET 2.0 grids if this was more appropriate.

Let me know your thoughts?

I use the the core .NET 2.0 grids

Is this because you've only ever used ASP.NET 2.0 grids mainly, or you've evaluated other grids and thought they were sub standard?

I know LLBLGen uses third party components in it's designer so wonder why you don't use them in your own development?

I tried the Infragistics before, and I found some flows that made me go for the standard grid. And the reason I didn't try anything else later on, is that I didn't meet a scenario or a case where I needed to use another grid than the standard MS one. All of my previous requirements were fully fullfilled by the MS grid.

So why do you need to use another thrid party grid? Maybe you have a requirement that I did not meet before.

I would use telerik stuff. Or Developer Express. So far I didn't have to use grid in an asp.net project though.

I have both Telerik and Infragistics - they each have their points and both work pretty well with LL.

Never used the DevExpress grid, but their other products are nice.

I use the Telerik widgets. The support offered through their forum comes close to matching this one. Granted, the main developer does is not involved like Frans, but their support personnel are helpful and they've got their own MVP's that contribute. Also, they've got a lot of code samples.

Well the janus ASP.NET controls provide us with sorting and changing column order easily and without much work. I thought the standard ASP.NET 2.0 grid controls provided this but it took a lot of additional work, although I haven't tried this much myself.

We have used syncfusion grid controls, and they have proved to be very good. And their support is excellent too. There is a huge amount of functionality in 3rd party grids which are not available in ms .net grids.

For example, their grid includes both windows forms and asp.net controls which, support both cell oriented unbound grids and bound grids. The grouping grids support grouping, filtering, summaries and expressions. Both flat and hierarchical datasources can be grouped, filtered or summarized... For starters

Also I have found their grids a lot faster than .net 2.0 grid.

I love the Devex winforms controls, but their ASP.NET stuff seems kind of slow (at least, in the demos). We've had good success with Janus.

I had so many problems with Syncfusion winforms controls I had to dump them. Don't know about the ASP.NET stuff, though.