WebGrid.NET Enterprise version 6.0 is the most significant major upgrade since initial version of WebGrid.NET containing key enhancements in user interface, enhanced grid functions, Excel® style column freezing, declarative data binding support and rich designer experience.

If you are planning to upgrade your existing web application to use WebGrid.NET Enterprise 6.0, please take the following points into consideration:

WebGrid.NET Enterprise 6.0 is especially designed for ASP.NET 2.0 in order to fully support native databinding features and new design-time features to improve developer's productivity. If your existing web application is still running on ASP.NET 1.x (developed using Visual Studio 2003), you cannot upgrade to version 5.0. We strongly encourage developers to start migrating to Visual Studio 2005 to obtain many benefits and features introduced in .NET 2.0.

If you are a new web developer and would like to develop ASP.NET 2.0 web application using WebGrid.NET Enterprise 6.0, you may want to check out Microsoft's Visual Web Developer Express. Visual Web Developer Express is a lightweight version of Visual Studio 2005, and is provided for free by Microsoft. Since that WebGrid.NET Enterprise 6.0 is built on the top of Visual Studio 2005 architecture, Visual Web Developer Express is fully supported as well. To download Visual Web Developer Express, visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/

Use new optimization features available in version 6.0 for better performance. Consider to enable the following features after your migration:
- DefaultStyle
  Enable DefaultStyle feature in WebGrid will significantly reduce page output size, especially when large number of WebGrid is placed in a WebForm.
- SmartWebResources
  When enabled, this feature will allow you to easily deploy WebGrid without the need of physical client scripts or client resources. With this feature, you can now develop ASP.NET 2.0 File System's website without additional efforts.

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